alt Hacker News“I'm excited about regular people being able to automate tedious things in their lives without having to spend 6+ months learning to program first.”
Bring the implicit and explicit costs to date into your analysis and you should quickly realise none of this makes sense from a societal standpoint.
Also you seem to be living in a bubble - the average person doesn’t care about automating anything!
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simonw • last Sunday at 2:24 PM
> Also you seem to be living in a bubble - the average person doesn’t care about automating anything!
One of my life goals is to help bring as many people into my "technology can automate things for you" bubble as I possibly can.
The average person already automates a lot of things in their day to day lives. They spend far less time doing the dishes, laundry, and cleaning because parts of those tasks have been mechanized and automated. I think LLMs probably automate the wrong thing for the average person (i.e., I still have to load the laundry machine and fold the laundry after) but automation has saved the average person a lot of time