The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs

Post by tomalbrc » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 5:22 PM UTC

pardon_me wrote: post #109

righthand wrote: post #77

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We?

The human species. "We" doesn't include everyone and doesn't necessarily imply the process happens through collaboration and planning (conspiracy). The race to automation is happening as expected; outside any group control and bound by competition. Game theory suggests the end result is us being replaced, if we make it that far. "We" as a species are the ones making it happen.

Post by rdevilla » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 5:35 PM UTC

ej88 wrote: post #107

xienze wrote: post #81

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> Because a machine can never take accountability. A business leader can though. > Compared to another software engineer who directed prompts to expand the system and generate extra revenue streams. I think you're missing the point. Why can't an LLM advance sufficiently to be a REAL senior software engineer that a business person/product manager is prompting instead of YOU, a software engineer? Why are YOU specifical…

> A business leader can though. If a 'business leader' is prompting out software through their agents, ensuring it works, maintaining it, and taking accountability... they're also a software engineer These titles are mostly semantics

Post by bauerd » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 5:37 PM UTC

jandrewrogers wrote: post #105

xienze wrote: post #69

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> domain experts will be fine But I don't see how this holds up to even the slightest amount of scrutiny. We're literally training LLMs to BE domain experts.

An enormous amount of domain expertise is not legible to LLMs. Their dependence on obtaining knowledge through someone else's writing is a real limitation. A lot of human domain expertise is not acquired that way. They still have a long way to go before they can master a domain from first principles, which constrains the mastery possible.

Post by anonyfox » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 5:43 PM UTC

Post by tinkelenberg » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 5:45 PM UTC

simonw wrote: post #43

Loved that section about "meat shields". LLMs cannot be held accountable. Someone needs to be involved in decision making, with real stakes if those decisions are bad.