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I think there will be larger markets, more companies, more jobs than before due to AI, but also a very painful transition period AI reduces the cost of produci
by vanuatu 5mo ago
I think there will be larger markets, more companies, more jobs than before due to AI, but also a very painful transition period
AI reduces the cost of producing software (and other intellectual tasks), which greatly improves the viability for more and more ambitious projects. As far as we know the amount of problems software (and humanity) can solve is unbounded
It feels like the market has shifted in SWE yet again to heavily prioritize a new set of skills, of which those in the top quartile are desired more than ever
- trojans1290 5mo agoWhat are these skills?
- koonsolo 5mo agoBeing able to work with an infinite amount of dumb interns that work super fast and have a vast amount of knowledge.
- stuxnet79 5mo agoThis is the magic question that I'm very eager to hear the answer to. Fundamentally, steering LLMs requires the same structured, logical thought process that is required to write code, regardless of abstraction level. Unlike what HN would have you believe this is not a skill that is equally distributed across the population. But given the rapid pace at which this technology is evolving, "steering" may very well be ceded to the clankers. LLM agents are fantastic at logical reasoning & any inefficiencies relative to human experts can be circumvented by sheer compute.
- asdff 5mo agoThe problems in any domain are infinite. But, alas, money is not.