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    Don't forget that the infant mortality rate (post birth) is 0.5%. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/infant-health.htm Number of infant deaths: 19,582 Deaths per 100,000 live births:…

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    Project succeeds = good. Project fails = bad. If a bunch of projects given to NG + LLM fail, the company will say at some point "this is no good, let's not do that anymore". If the…

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    > The experienced engineer also gets an LLM though Say experienced engineer Edna was working on a project and the new grad Nelson replaced her because he was cheaper and about as g…

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    Comment #34408920

    Then those projects will fail and they won't do that anymore. Or they'll succeed and engineers will have to find harder problems to solve. If a new grad + LLM can do task X about a…

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    That's capitalism. After you get fired, if you can still produce useful labor there will ideally be more employers waiting; you can freelance if your visa situation allows it; or y…

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    >people misunderstand and anthropomorphize LLMs I agree but there is a certain "god of the gaps" process that's happening here. To me what's been achieved so far is encoding text i…

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    I think people are more impressed than they should be because of a misconception about what programmers really do. For most big software projects the bottleneck is not writing code…