Programmers will be worse than fast food at this point. Good luck future CS grads, you're gonna need it

Apple vision pro + OpenAI entertainment on the fly + living in a tight pod next to millions of other people, hooked onto life support. A wonderful matrix fantasy

Biologists, chemists, and researchers can be all automated and trained on a very big LLM that OpenAI eventually creates. Then, more cures to diseases and technological advances can be invented. This technology can soon run entire countries and emulate humanity / society.

If you assume the technology will be able to do arbitrary things in the future then sure.

We thought programmers, fast food workers, and drivers would be automated first. Turns out, it's movie / video, actors, editors and artists....

We all are going to get automated out of the workforce together :)

Silver lining in this I guess. If everyone realizes at the same time they're all f'd together, regardless of "skill", then maybe there's a chance we can all work together to save ourselves.

No chance to think "sucks for you, but I'm good here" like so often happens with other issues.

The only people that buy AMD GPUs are gamers; AMD have long since stopped targeting the enterprise side of their GPU market. NVIDIA makes the majority of their profits by selling A1000+ cards to businesses that require the power for computation (video rendering, LLM processing, etc). AMD neglected and disregarded productivity, and now they are paying the consequences.

This is already happening at my workplace. Thousands of people just got cut off due to a LLM automating 90% of all my coworker's projects (mainly front end dev and basic backend api management). I predict that in the next 5 years, most software engineers will be worse off than minimum wage fast food workers. Coding is the new form of reading, and an AI will already have that knowledge.

I find that hard to believe. Thousands of people? 90 %? I wish I could get so much help from a LLM. I’m a heavy GPT-4 and Copilot user, it explains new stuff to me, spits out configs and command line arguments, sometimes code snippets, but it utterly fails at any actual engineering tasks. Like, I work on document automation, most of my job is about evaluating changes to documents, efficiently resolving the side effects, transforming from the internal format to HTML, stuff like that. Copilot, even with its IDE integration, is rarely super helpful, it often just doesn’t understand what I’m trying to do, and it doesn’t help with architecture at all. There’s not enough “thinking” going on yet.