alt Hacker NewsI think the base requirement to compete will keep going up. We already have AI models that can debug and audit code better than the best humans.
You used to have a career as a software engineer or devops person if you were good at debugging. Today, I challenge you to take any past production outages, toss the traces into Claude Fable, and see if it finds the bug faster than humans can.
I think this is the way the rest of white collar labor goes.
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pydry • yesterday at 10:05 PM
Ive dealt with tons of bugs Claude couldnt recognize. Have you not?
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devmor • yesterday at 10:33 PM
> We already have AI models that can debug and audit code better than the best humans.
I'd love to see one someday.
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For some roles, I agree but I also think that there will be many new-ish roles that will have lower requirements right down to being a warm body capable of walking and talking. The lower requirements will be possible because these roles will essentially be proxies for AI agents that need a human to go somewhere and do something in the physical world, whether that's resetting a breaker or just being a human face and voice delivering a message.
And yes, before anyone brings it up, I've read Manna and if you haven't you probably should[0] but I don't think it will be as dystopian or utopian as that. Humanoid robots would obviously replace some of the proxy need but there will still be a lot of things that only a living human can do even if it's just purely for legal and regulatory reasons.
I also think there will be a lot more roles that are purely human in nature and which will have an entirely different set of requirements but that's a different topic.
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20120224063109/http://marshallbr...