Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence

Post by truetraveller » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 10:28 AM UTC

throwaw12 wrote: post #214

truetraveller wrote: post #163

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You were probably deficient in RESEARCH skills before. No offense to you, since I was also like this once. LLMs research and put the results on the plate. Yes, for people who were deficient in research skills, I can see 2-3x improvements. Note1: I have "expert" level research skills. But LLMs still help me in research, but the boost is probably 1.2x max. But Note2: By research, I mean googling, github search, forum s…

please don't change your comment constantly (or at maybe add UPDATE 1/2/3), because you had different words before, like you were saying something in this fashion: * you probably lack good RESEARCH skills * I can see at most 1.25x improvements - now it is 2-3x By updating your comment you are making my reply irrelevant to your past response

Post by ungovernableCat » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 10:48 AM UTC

avidiax wrote: post #264

holografix wrote: post #69

One of the more interesting takes I heard from a colleague, who’s in the marketing department, is that he uses the corporate approved LLM (Gemini) for “pretend work” or very basic tasks. At the same time he uses Claude on his personal account to seriously augment his job. His rationale is he won’t let the company log his prompts and responses so they can’t build an agentic replacement for him. Corporate rules about s…

It's not his company that will train using his prompts. It's the personal account, unless it is fully paid and he's opted out of training on his prompts.

Post by embedding-shape » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 10:50 AM UTC

jpollock wrote: post #244

throwaw12 wrote: post #154

People who are saying they're not seeing productivity boost, can you please share where is it failing? Because, I am terrified by the output I am getting while working on huge legacy codebases, it works. I described one of my workflow changes here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47271168 but in general compared to old way of working I am saving half of the steps consistently, whether its researching the codebas…

The last time I tried AI, I tested it with a stopwatch. The group used feature flags... if (a) { // new code } else { // old code } void testOff() { disableFlag(a); // test it still works } void testOn() { enableFlag(a); // test it still works } However, as with any cleanup, it doesn't happen. We have thousands of these things lying around taking up space. I thought "I can give this to the AI, it won't get bored or c…

Post by truetraveller » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 10:54 AM UTC

throwaw12 wrote: post #167

truetraveller wrote: post #163

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You were probably deficient in RESEARCH skills before. No offense to you, since I was also like this once. LLMs research and put the results on the plate. Yes, for people who were deficient in research skills, I can see 2-3x improvements. Note1: I have "expert" level research skills. But LLMs still help me in research, but the boost is probably 1.2x max. But Note2: By research, I mean googling, github search, forum s…

no worries, I do not get offended quickly. But I also think you are overestimating your RESEARCH skills, even if you are very good at research, I am sure you can't read 25 files in parallel, summarize them (even if its missing some details) in 1 minute and then come up with somewhat working solution in the next 2 minutes. I am pretty sure, humans can't comprehend reading 25 code files with each having at least 400 li…

Post by mikkupikku » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 11:00 AM UTC

kranke155 wrote: post #269

uxcolumbo wrote: post #258

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Advertisement is not that effective in general or just for certain channels, i.e. TV? Also what are you existing to?

So my understanding - from a friend at WPP who told me the same and from a freakonomics episode - is that advertising was wildly oversold before digital. When the metrics arrived with digital, they saw that advertising, in some ways, was just not as effective as they’d hoped. In some ways the ROI wasn’t there. Seth Godin agrees. He says that advertising in the digital era could be as simple as just having a good prod…