Now we’re getting somewhere… if work is for humans and the only way to verify you are human is to be physically present then remote work can’t exist without risk of being infiltrated by AI. Only question is, does a company hire the human, with wants and needs and sleep and pay? Or do they become a “remote-first” and hire the AI for little to no pay? I’m extremely excited to see which direction human kind leans towards next.
These concerns will be rendered meaningless, because there's really no point in having a company when you have no customers. If anyone can use an AI to write useful software then software development is kaput.
Historically, machines replaced humans in nearly every job at an astounding rate. Machines are almost always much faster and cheaper than humans, and there's almost no incentive for a business to not take that savings. It hasn't even been that much of a problem until very recently.
Now we have vast swathes of our economy in jobs that we considered "safe" from being automated from underneath us. Suddenly these LLMs appear and offer a very credible threat that a large number of these jobs will be automated in the very near future. Coupled with current social and political issues, a lot of people are going to suffer greatly.
The next couple of decades are going to be a mess. If we automate too much too fast, we'll have to actually figure out what to do with an enormous population of unemployed people. Maybe we'll finally figure out social welfare, or invest in sweeping New Deal type projects.
It's certainly going to be interesting, but god damn am I tired of living in interesting times.
Next six months. Enough to fit version 5 and 6. Considering that the integration into Slack, Teams, Outlook and Office is already there, maybe even less.
Big players had already started hemorrhaging staff, right?
