Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by rhubarbtree » Tue, Mar 10, 2026, 7:18 AM UTC

bandrami wrote: post #541

rhubarbtree wrote: post #337

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is not a good thing. If you’re not being exposed and skilling up already, you’re likely to be in the camp that is washed away. If you can’t be exposed to it in your day job, start using Claude opus in the evening so you know what’s coming.

Eh, people have been warning me "you'll be left behind!" about the flavor of the week for decades now and it hasn't happened yet. If it happens it happens.

I fear you have not yet fully appreciated the magnitude of this particular change.

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

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Post by willmadden » Wed, Mar 11, 2026, 2:39 AM UTC

bandrami wrote: post #547

willmadden wrote: post #432

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The LLM needs to understand your existing codebase if it's going to be useful building features that integrate with said codebase seamlessly without breaking things or assuming things that don't exist. That's not something you want to give away to a private AI company, so self-host an open source model.

I understood how that would help the LLM, I asked how that would help us . What decision would that inform for us that we're currently having trouble with?

What "decision" are you talking about? You said you don't code, but you administer and maintain code. It sounds like you integrate new features into an existing codebase?

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

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Post by fortzi » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 5:13 AM UTC

Noyra-X wrote: post #263

What's interesting from a practical standpoint: the paper confirms what we're seeing in SME deployments – AI augments, not replaces. But the real productivity gain only kicks in when you redesign the process around the AI, not just bolt it on. Most small businesses skip that step entirely and then wonder why their 'AI tool' isn't delivering. The organizational restructuring is the hard part, not the technology. Anyon…

Can you give an example of how such a redesigned process might look like?

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

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Post by boxedemp » Sun, Mar 15, 2026, 12:18 AM UTC

squirrellous wrote: post #326

boxedemp wrote: post #103

I think it really depends what you're working on. I do some consulting and found it's not helping the C++ devs as much it's helping the html/js devs.

C++ dev here. It’s helping me just fine. Not as much as frontend folks but not far behind either. It’s not quite at the place where LLMs can take over 100% coding, but give it a few more months.

To be clear I never said or implied it wasn't helping c++ devs. I said I find it helps HTLM/JS development more.

And I don't even think it'll stay that way, just that it's what I've seen so far.

It's anecdotal of me, I apologize for that.