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rwyinuse • last Wednesday at 7:05 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I agree. Programming was just a natural first problem to tackle, but the impact will not be limited there. If you give today's best model access to all the data sources and systems an average white collar worker has, it probably could do most of their job. But organizational change takes its time, systems need to be integrated into new AI tools and so on, so it will take a while.

People tend to overestimate change in short term, and underestimate it in long term. AI hasn't replaced programmers yet, but I believe it will replace most white collar workers in 20 years.


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jvanderbot • last Wednesday at 7:12 PM

You actually claimed two very different things.

1) that LLMs can do existing white collar work well once some (possibly significant amount of) work is done to fully plug them in and get specifications settled.

2) That all white collar workers will be replaced by LLMs.

Perhaps a typo, but I don't think (1) implies (2).

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