There is truth to this, but you’re overstating it. If AI is cheap and can replace grunt workers then we’ll have a massive wave of new businesses solving problems that previously required a massive capital investment.
not fully related to what the parent is saying, but I need to get this off my chest:
isn't this development obviously going to result in the deprecation of the value of the human intellect to near-zero? which is the thing that virtually all people on this platform base their livelihood on?
there's such a deafening silence around this topic on the internet where there should be - i don't know what but not this silence. we don't know what to do right? and we're avoiding this topic.
with this version they broke the assumed wall of llms's developed that was the last copium that we could believe in. the wall is broken and now it's just a matter of time until your capacity to think will be completely unneeded. the machine will do it more accurately and more quickly by orders of magnitude.
am I a doomer? I was in the home country of my parents recently, that is completely dysfunctional and war is on the verge of breaking out. what I learned there is that humans stay ignorant of great dangers until the very moment in which it affects them. this must've been the case with all the great wars that we've had. the water is rising but until I start to suffocate I don't agree to see it. i make up copes, or I think some are going to drown but I'm safe, or I distract myself.
what are all the software engineers here thinking? what's your cope for this? or are we all freezing in shock right now? this o1 is solving problems that i know many of my colleagues can never solve. what are we hoping for I think? I don't have a future because my future was the image that I had of it. and no image of the future that would be nice to keep around seems plausible at this point.
My cope is that by the time my job is stolen nearly every other job that involves sitting at a computer has also been lost. Once they come for my paycheck there will have already been an upheaval. Maybe it will be a disaster, maybe not. But I’m still better positioned than your average person.