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First, if you crack open a history book (or have an agent do it for you), you'll notice that the world goes backwards quite often. It's not pretty, but the critical mass of people who feel they have nothing to lose is pretty modest.

Second, I'm really curious what's your "adapt" path, because I suspect you're in denial too. Accept that, before long, an LLM will not need you to write good prompts, tell it to "keep going", or say "no, that's wrong". What's your value then? Does your employer keep you on the payroll as charity? For old times' sake? If your value is just supervising AI, then your value is declining rapidly.

People in unskilled professions don't have choice when automation shows up and takes their jobs. Software engineering may go down in history as one of the few highly skilled professions that didn't just keel over and die, but enthusiastically embraced its own demise.

parent socializer 25 days ago

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