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How I keep up with AI progress

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277 points itzlambda | 1 comments | 18 Jul 25 18:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.592s | 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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kybernetikos ◴[18 Jul 25 20:23 UTC] No.44609393[source]▶
There are lots of careers that used to be widespread but are now extremely niche because of technological change. For example, most careers relating to horses.
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1. jononor ◴[19 Jul 25 10:17 UTC] No.44614174[source]▶
What would the "horse" equivalents be in this AI tech shift? Legit question - getting reasonable answers here might help us understand where we are going.

For sure it is not computers. Or software systems. We will for sure have way more of those. "Code" is more unclear, there will for sure be more of it - but for sure less human-hours per line of code. So the roles there will change quite a bit, though unclear exactly how. More focus on systems, business rules, specification, I suspect. Translations (between human languages) seems like a thing that is highly risky. It seems that it could go the way of the horse, automated translations being 99% of the volume eventually?