alt Hacker NewsI don't get it. This technology has almost reached the point where they don't need you anymore, and you're joyful about it for some reason?
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There is no credible path towards stopping progress on AI. Nobody knows exactly how this will play out. But whichever way it turns out, being an skilled AI practitioner will give you strictly more options than not being one.
I've been emotionally and financially preparing for this since I read about the singularity in 2007.
I do still love technology and I'm a builder. I'm also neither a tech optimist or pessimist, but an inevitabilist. It's coming.
You still need people to come up with the ideas and act as a guide so it does the right thing the first round.
Because (maybe particularly) at 1e100 scale, having a super intelligent butler that does whatever everyone asks of it can easily get you to hundreds of thousands of daily PRs merged to the monorepo, but won't necessarily help coordinate efforts, and may actually cause certain projects to collapse under their own weight.
Finally circumstances will force me to become a goat farmer, a desire I've always secretly aspired to but never felt comfortable expressing, let alone acting upon
Now we will finally be free, without having to make hard decisions. It will be decided for us.
Sometimes I wonder AI won't have to hack military drones to end humans en masse. Making relevance, employment, and other life conditions for most so pathetic that it will start making it happen on its own.
Jevon's paradox is the most likely answer. Tons of stuff to do.
you do need a precise prompt to do what it's asked and there are 50-100 things that needs to work to meet the criteria. Little things need to work, and work well
Why wouldn't it be cause for joy, even elation?
I understand we have the pesky problem of work and time being interchangeable for money. But except for that, it's pretty exciting.
I am in two opposed minds on this. On the one hand, you're correct. Their job will be made redundant in a couple of years. Some senior people might be retained to orchestrate all the agents, but eventually they will also be replaced. And it's coming for all white collar jobs, not just coders. That's bad.
On the other hand, unlimited intelligence democratises products and services in a revolutionary way. Everyone will be able to do whatever they like in digital space for basically free. No more purchasing software. Make any app/company/website/blog/movie/show/game/forum you can think of. This will quickly bleed into the physical space, with real-world products and services becoming logarithmically cheaper. A true future of abundance.
The big problem is going to be our social and economic transition. Are we going to wait until unemployment is that 10% before we act? 20%? How bad are we going to allow things to become before we implement universal high income? I say universal high income because white collar workers are not going to accept being relegated to an income of $1000/month forever. To achieve universal high income requires eye-watering taxes on the major benefactors of our new economy. They won't accept that without a fight, and it our current fractured political climate, what would it take for everyone to agree on a unified direction?