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I don't think a lot of people are really worried that LLMs will successfully replace them, but they might still get let go because the people in charge think th
by 59nadir 8mo ago
I don't think a lot of people are really worried that LLMs will successfully replace them, but they might still get let go because the people in charge think they can replace people with LLMs. These two scenarios don't imply the same level of confidence in LLMs at all.
What people who know nothing about creation/production think only matters in the short term, and over a long enough time frame they will be proven wrong.
I've used LLMs via agents and chat for what I do and I have zero confidence that it could be a productive part of a team without a very knowledgeable handler that knows exactly what they want and how to correct errant output... Meaning you'll still have to hire an engine programmer in order to get a game engine, then you can pretend that they'll have to use a LLM to get their work done (but given that the "you" in this scenario is completely out of the loop when it comes to production you wouldn't be able to tell that they did all their work manually, except perhaps if you notice that velocity went up, bug count went down, and there was more confidence when it came to estimations).
- elcritch 8mo ago> the people in charge think they can replace people with LLMs Additionally using it as a pretext to fire lots of workers like Amazon and others seem to have been doing. Some friends mentioned their companies using it as a way to offshore to cheaper locales while getting less bad press.
- lousken 8mo ago> the people in charge think they can replace people with LLMs I am not even sure if they even think that. It can be a placeholder for any other reason
- kcplate 8mo ago> without a very knowledgeable handler that knows exactly what they want and how to correct errant output... For now, but I think the problem will become that we will soon start undercutting the bench and the rookie technologists, which in the future will eliminate the “very knowledgeable handlers” or make them exceedingly rare. I am of the opinion that AI will improve and makes some great leaps for society and then gradually start to enshitify literally everything because we will no longer have people able to second guess the AI and keep it in check.