A good reminder from Laurie Voss about the implications of AI on the job market – it’s the same argument Andrew Ng has been making for years now:
Jobs are more than collections of tasks. Jobs require prioritization, judgement of exceptional situations, the ability to communicate ad-hoc with other sources of information like colleagues or regulations, the ability to react to entirely unforseen circumstances, and a whole lot of experience. As I said, LLMs can deal with a certain amount of ambiguity and complexity, but the less the better. Giving them a whole, human-sized job is way more ambiguity and complexity than they can handle. It's asking them to turn text into more text. It's not going to work.
