alt Hacker NewsIf you can’t make things right when your agent goes wrong, then yeah you’re not adding value. If you can’t tell the difference between the agent hallucinations and the useful stuff, then yeah you’re not adding value. If you can’t steer the agent in a useful direction instead of just standing back, then yeah…
You sound dismissive, but taking your description to its conclusion, the engineer value can be approximated as:
For many engineering jobs, P(AI mistake) is very low and decreasing, and cost of AI mistakes is also usually (consider the cost of a bug for an average engineer; unless you’re building avionics or working on MRIs or such, usually very low).So even if you can “make things right” or “tell the difference” as you say, the value of any given engineer is dropping.