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How I keep up with AI progress

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264 points itzlambda | 1 comments | 18 Jul 25 18:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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blactuary ◴[18 Jul 25 19:48 UTC] No.44609030[source]▶
Actually no I do not have to keep up
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paul7986 ◴[18 Jul 25 19:52 UTC] No.44609066[source]▶
Indeed just get out of tech and make a new living! Tech jobs are declining and will continue then fall off a cliff with one doing the job ten use to. Followed by other white collar and blue collar (AMazons warehouse robots) jobs.

Happily canceled my GPT Plus this week; personally not gonna feed that beast any longer! As well it can not generate maps (create road trip travel maps showing distance between locations to share with friends, a creek tubing map route & etc) at all like Gemini can for free.

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dingnuts ◴[18 Jul 25 20:13 UTC] No.44609281[source]▶
That's right, there are no carpenters or lumberjacks anymore because power tools were invented
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ninetyninenine ◴[18 Jul 25 20:23 UTC] No.44609384[source]▶
Obviously AI is different. While LLMs are more of a power tool now, the future trendline points towards something that (possibly) replaces us. That's the entire concern right? I mean everyone knows this.

Is this not obvious?

Why do people hide behind this ridiculous analogy: "That's right, there are no carpenters or lumberjacks anymore because power tools were invented"

???

I mean sure the analogy is catchy and makes surface level sense, but can your brain do some analysis outside the context of an analogy??? It makes no sense that all of AI can be completely characterized by an analogy that isn't even accurate yet people delusionally just regurgitate the analogy most fitting with the fantasy reality they prefer.

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1. lurking_swe ◴[18 Jul 25 21:01 UTC] No.44609791[source]▶
sure. But why is digging one’s head in the sand a good strategy? To be clear i’m not advocating for trying to keep up all the time. You gotta live life too. But “ejecting” completely is dumb.

Are you saying that when the sewing machine was invented, it would be in the employees interest to not learn how to use it? Or when the computer was invented, it’s not in the employees interest to learn how to use it?

Even if you are a software engineer and are fired / laid off / pushed out of the industry because of AI, knowing how to use AI, its risks, etc is still helpful. It’s a skill you can hopefully use in your next career, whatever you pivot to. Unless you pivot to manual labor.

Thinking otherwise is shortsighted.