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loliver666 | 1 year ago

You can safely ignore any blog post with 'The death of...' in it's title.

As you say, companies telling us their products with dominate the future is nothing new. The next big job killer is always 5 years away, apparently.

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ben_w|1 year ago

> The next big job killer is always 5 years away, apparently

It really is, and really always has been. At least, when it comes to software.

What's always been hard, is knowing which of the many predictions about the real job killer will be correct, so that you can train for it.

In 2009, I was expecting that by 2019 the world would have widespread availability of self driving cars without steering wheels, and not just some geofenced examples and a promise of more "real soon now honest" as we're still at in 2024.

In 2019, I wasn't expecting LLMs to be even remotely as good as they turned out to be by 2022, let alone 2024.