While I agree that LLMs cannot replace humans and that a job cannot simply be reduced to a bunch of LLM tasks, they definitely do accelerate a human’s potential to do more tasks efficiently. This is the key for the capitalists to exploit. For a job that required 10 humans, they will let go 4 humans and equip the remaining 6 to take on the load of 10 but with assistance of LLMs. To be honest this was done even before LLMs, now LLMs are just an alibi for cost cutting.You still have 4 people that have been let go who will need to find a way to earn a living in this competitive market.
kbelder|1 year ago
This increase in productivity has been a huge and omnipresent factor in human progress and happiness. It's a very good thing to have happen. The only real drawback is temporary disruption when it happens (which I'm not discounting, it can be a huge disruption, even though it works out for the better in the long term).