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The relation won’t invert because it’s very easy and quick to train guy pilling up bricks while training architect is slow and hard. If low skilled jobs will pa
by azan_ 1y ago
The relation won’t invert because it’s very easy and quick to train guy pilling up bricks while training architect is slow and hard. If low skilled jobs will pay much better than high skilled then people will just change their job.
- torben-friis 1y agoThat’s only true as long as the technical difficulties aren’t covered by tech. Think of a world where software engineering itself is handled relatively well by the llm and the job of the engineer becomes just collecting business requirements and checking they’re correctly addressed. In that world the limit for scarcity might be less in the difficulty of training and more in the willingness to bend your back in the sun for hours vs comfortably writing prompts in an air conditioned room.
- azan_ 1y agoRight now there are enough people willing to bend their back in the sun for hours that their salaries are much lower than these of engineers. Do you think that for some reason supply of these people will drop with higher wages and much lower employment opportunities in office jobs? I highly doubt it.
- torben-friis 1y agoMy argument is not that those people’s salaries will go up until overtaking the engineers’. It’s the opposite, that the value of office/intellectual work will tank, while manual work remains stable. Lower barrier of entry for intelectual work if a position even needs to be covered, work conditions much more comfortable.