alt Hacker NewsI agree that it's an opportunity to "do it the old way", as a way to preserve the skill. I actually would like to do that regularly, like half a day every week or something.
But I find it difficult to motivate it from the "productivity" angle. Like if I work for a day without an LLM today, it feels like I could go skiing instead, and the LLM will do what I would have done today in 10min tomorrow...
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And the LLMs of 5 years from now will do what current LLMs do in a day in 1 minute.
Which is the way it should be if we were to share the fruits of our labour more evenly in society. Of course in practice the lions share of the product gains go to the capital class and the while they suck the surplus employees and the remaining workers have to carry the burden of supporting the ones now sidelined.
Snow day / skiing? Since this has affected our customers, and they're asking us for help, it means I was up all last night.
Ironically, I also had a change window last night to make some configuration changes to improve site reliability. It was a little challenging to get customer approval for both the cost & downtime for this. Let's just say... this will be a much more fun conversation to have next week, and for the account manager to have. "Yes, we'e proactively improved your reliablity, and here's why you were very smart to approve it and pay for it."
Once you use a cheat code like “how do you turn this on?” It’s really difficult to finish the game without it.
it feels like I could go skiing instead, and the LLM will do what I would have done today in 10min tomorrow...
You sound self-employed.
Seriously, if the LLM was down and a dev submitted 10 PRs, I think it would raise some good/bad curiosity from the team with where things stands today.