rediscovery's comments

The only skill set that exists in knowledge work is formal logic.

But yeah I'm sure increasing energy input into symbolic systems will not increase their entropy and thus the demand for workers capable of formal logic to keep it in check.

Because dumping representations of formal logic on a exponentially increasing repository of compressed data will surely start giving out output with higher informational content than the input. Any time now. Just double the size of the model a few more times and we will start getting lower entropy outcomes for free.

So there is a clear pattern but "this time is different"?

Funny how that was also said at those times.

Well have developer salaries grown over this period when outsourcing and bootcamps became prevalent?

The article linked doesn't ridicule anyone.

Behavioral psychology goes a long way in explaining the weird distribution of responses to using LLMs to generate code:

"Gambling-like behavior in pigeons: ‘jackpot’ signals promote maladaptive risky choice"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-06641-x

The tech industry is actively promoting gambling addiction and the scary thing is that people are willingly walking into that trap.

Take a look at this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44849147

"Most of what I've learned from talking to people about their workflows is counterintuitive and subtle."

Seriously? Are we at the point of doing rain dances for these models and describing the moves as "counterintuitive and sublte"? This is some magical thinking level self delusion.

Downvote all you like, or ignore this. Agency is being taken away from us, no one gets to say we didn't see it coming down the line because we did and we said something and our peers treated us like ignorant and self interested for pointing out the obvious.