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There will always be people who know how to handle the complexity we're trying to automate away. If I can't figure out some arcane tax law when filling out my taxes, I ask my accountant, as it's literally their job to know these things.


> There will always be people who know how to handle the complexity we're trying to automate away

This is not a given!

If we automated all accounting, why would anyone still take the time to learn to become an accountant?

Yes, there are sometimes people who are just invested in learning traditional stuff for the sake of it, but is that really what we want to rely on as the fallback when AI fails?


It's highly unlikely that everybody will flock to LLMs, leaving absolutely nobody capable of stringing together a few lines of code on their own. Some devs may enjoy vibe coding, and may even be more productive that way, but there will always be use cases where it is preferable to produced deterministic code via a human dev.




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