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rahimnathwanilast Monday at 9:09 AM3 repliesview on HN

  The more efficient I made the technical part of the job, the more time they had to spend doing the manual labor part of the job to keep up.
Imagine you like writing code, and someone automates that part of the job so you have to spend more of your time reviewing PRs and writing specs...

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SJMGlast Monday at 2:35 PM

What a great comparison; I've never thought of it this way. It's obviously not perfect since the automation is so temperamental shall we say, but this does give me more empathy for the countless workers whose jobs have been re-natured by technology.

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einsteinx2last Monday at 11:40 AM

I don’t even have to imagine it, you just described my job now that we have LLMs.

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lazylizardlast Monday at 9:20 AM

efficiency is the enemy of employment, no?

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