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Re: Tech jobs remain a good bet despite mass layoffs in Silicon Valley

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> I say this as somebody that probably uses it every 10 minutes Do you feel like your ability to produce correct output with GPT improved with practice? If so, then eventually you might reach a point where you get 99.99% accuracy with it, and this can easily 10x your productivity.

No, that's not really what has happened. If you ask a question, it tends to mean you lack knowledge about something, and therefore you don't have enough context to produce a question that perfectly teases out the correct answer from GPT. Instead what happens is that you have to carefully engage in conversation and iterate towards improving GPTs context and your understanding of what it is saying well enough to ask it…

I was thinking more of a situation where you have a good understanding of the subject, just using GPT to generate a solution for you.

Re: Tech jobs remain a good bet despite mass layoffs in Silicon Valley

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Bay Area bias is almost certainly skewing this entire conversation thread. In my average non-coastal metro area, all the nice homes in the nice areas are owned by classes of people like lawyers and doctors, not software developers. Most developers I meet here drive average cars and live in average housing.

> Bay Area bias is almost certainly skewing this entire conversation thread Definitely. > In my average non-coastal metro area, all the nice homes in the nice areas are owned by classes of people like lawyers and doctors, not software developers. Is the area benefiting from brain gain or suffering from brain drain?

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