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ryandvm • today at 4:21 PM • 5 replies • view on HN

My favorite part about gushing about the new age of AI development is how oblivious the authors always seem to be about the next phase.

It's always some variation of: the LLMs are incredible and gaining logical and reasoning ability at an astounding rate, but fortunately they will always need me to sit here to hit the "Enter" key.

I envy their optimism.


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vanuatu • today at 4:35 PM

until 1) software is saturated or 2) llms or their creators will take accountability for any issues its code causes i think there will continuously be the next phase

Tbh i dont see software demand being saturated anytime soon (which is why im bullish SWEs, and we're seeing both demand and compensation increase as of late), we keep moving up abstractions and increasing ambition and scope for new projects.

If all the companies use {frontier model} then your competitive advantage is what you have that is not legible to the model

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uludag • today at 4:45 PM

Exactly. Taken from this article:

> And yet, how also we have changed, and continue to adapt to the new ways of working.

Assuming this trajectory continues, the best case is the only adapting which we'll need is to sit in the assembly line chair: wages reduce to that of a skilled factory worker, little to no leverage in labor market, and economic precarity.

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paul7986 • today at 4:36 PM

Enter key? Just talk to the LLM, no enter key needed ;-)

Now anyone who can talk can vibe code apps.

Personally I vibe code apps while driving. I still have to test them once no longer in motion, so im thinking maybe humans are still needed for testing but in a few years or more maybe not?

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argee • today at 4:45 PM

Once cars came around, people probably ran into the streets yelling that animal husbandry is over and that horses, chickens, cows, etc. are all done for and we'll be eating car meat or perhaps, cars will fully take over and start eating our meat.

If they didn't, maybe they were smarter back then.

sublinear • today at 4:24 PM

How many times are we going to cycle through these same arguments instead of actually discussing the content of the blog posts?

Circling back to these replies: Ah yes! The best slacktivism is having the bots do it for you!

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