We used to have a local devs slack and any time someone came up with a random slash command one guy would add a new php script to power that command. I assume a lot of it is just an abandoned API that nobody cares about anymore because Microsoft forced Teams into Office so it took over corporate America in waves. I cant remember the last place I worked at that didnt just use Teams.
Though tbh I'm far more worried about the societal impacts of large scale job displacement across so many professional industries at the same time.
I think it is likely to be very, very ugly for society in the near term. Not because the problems are unsolvable, but because everyone is choosing to ignore the threat of them.
And I realize a lot of people will handwave my concerns away with stories of Luddites and Jevon's paradox, but we've never had a tidal wave this big hit all at once and I think the scale (combined with speed of change) fundamentally changes things this time.
I stopped worrying. Western societies have about 30 to 40% of the people doing knowledge work, which contributes to the economy that employs the other 60%.
If that 40% is automated away in one go, there's no economy as we know it anymore. Either it acts as a negative void coefficient and moderates it into something sustainable, or it blows up.
It's a very concerning future. I would love to live in a world where we could simply stop them from doing that, but for the moment, the best hedge appears to be the Chinese open weight models that can't be put back in the box and provide the valuable market function of commodifying the encoded knowledge of these models (which in and of itself was derived from knowledge not created by the frontier lab).
Yep. Two latest comments are full of LLM tells, plus an LLM-generated Show HN.
As usual with modern Claudes and GPT-5s, the output repeats and overemphasizes jargon from the input tokens without clarifying or switching up the wording.
Yeah I think the meritocracy pushed by America is at least in part responsible for this. Social validation for being a high-performing employee is much greater, than for being a member of the community.
There are plenty of volunteers at community events in my area that have prestigious jobs, and the strivers working to maximize opportunities for themselves actually seek these out as another opportunity for accolades and networking.
You just need to find people who actually have an interest in their community. You know who those people often are? Parents. I suspect the decline in birth rates, especially in urban areas, amplifies this in both directions.
> If you spend a couple of years with an LLM really watching and understanding what it’s doing and learning from mistakes, then you can get up the ladder very quickly.
I don't feel like most providers keep a model for more than 2 years. GPT-4o got deprecated in 1.5 years. Are we expecting coding models to stay stable for longer time horizons?
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