Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post

Post by skybrian » Mon, Jun 08, 2026, 11:55 PM UTC

awesomeMilou wrote: post #199

skybrian wrote: post #194

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How does that work? Funding is useful, but we aren't seeing fully-automated startups, and often, founders don't need all that much funding.

By completely eliminating the need for a human workforce, therefore rendering a majority of humanity obsolete, therefore lots of social inequality, therefore lots of starvation, poverty and death. When billionaires say "think about the trillions of people that will benefit from AI" and some notion of living in a post scarcity world, they are talking about _their_ descendants, not yours.

Post by AndrewKemendo » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 1:19 AM UTC

Npovview wrote: post #191

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #152

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Everyone but insane people like me want some kind of durable stability to their life they don’t want to be forced to reinvent themselves every five years because the world is changing faster than it ever has While I understand where people are coming from to an extent that’s just never been my lifestyle and so when I see people looking for some kind of long-term stability I just kind of baffled at what makes them thi…

Red Queen hypothesis is a hypothesis in evolutionary biology proposed in 1973, that species must constantly adapt, evolve, and proliferate in order to survive while pitted against ever-evolving opposing species. Why do we always assume environments and other agents will always remain static.

Post by _doctor_love » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 1:44 AM UTC

lelanthran wrote: post #60

lwhi wrote: post #26

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I think in the future, those who succeed will be equivalent to wayfinders. People who _can_ see the wood for the trees, and are able to understand multiple (sometimes conflicting) requirements and work out a way through that solves the problems that arise, for all involved parties. An understanding of domain, the ability to communicate effectively and a mind that can think laterally, will all be vital.

> I think in the future, those who succeed will be equivalent to wayfinders. In the future, those who succeed will be the owners of capital.

Post by matheusmoreira » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 1:52 AM UTC

watwut wrote: post #66

pc86 wrote: post #38

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I was just reading comments the other day where people who dragging a company because they apparently used AI for some low level copywriting stuff. No art assets, no code (so far as anyone knows), not actually writing copy but more like "is everything spelled right, does the copy structure flow, have all these points been addressed, etc." Not only that but the only reason anyone even knew is because the company was c…

> There is a visceral hate in the artistic community toward AI that doesn't really make sense to me tbh. Really? Have you seen how the CEOs marketed it and talked about people in that community? Artists hate it, because they listened to what AI community and leadership were openly saying. The weirdest thing on this all is how people find the hate puzzling considering initial rhetoric coming from the industry itself.…

Post by therealdrag0 » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 2:20 AM UTC

grebc wrote: post #185

therealdrag0 wrote: post #154

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Just because a generation or two down the line is better off does’t mean a lot of lives aren’t effected negatively when industries are destroyed or moved.

I guess my point is it’s rarely the transformational technology people talk it up to be. 5 years ago absolutely everyone was talking about how blockchains & ledgers were going to solve all the problems of the world, and executives needed blockchain & ledgers in their products. Now, no one cares. Not saying that happens in this case, but don’t believe the hype so easy. Even job losses in the context of a radically dif…