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muldvarp ◴[] No.45052736[source]
Brutal that software engineering went from one of the least automatable jobs to a job that is universally agreed to be "most exposed to automation".

Was good while it lasted though.

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grim_io ◴[] No.45052911[source]
Maybe it's just the nature of being early adopters.

Other fields will get their turn once a baseline of best practices is established that the consultants can sell training for.

In the meantime, memes aside, I'm not too worried about being completely automated away.

These models are extremely unreliable when unsupervised.

It doesn't feel like that will change fundamentally with just incrementally better training.

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ACCount37 ◴[] No.45053115[source]
Does it have to? Stack enough "it's 5% better" on top of each other and the exponent will crush you.
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1. anthem2025 ◴[] No.45056876[source]
Pretty crazy, and all you have to do is assume exponential performance growth for as long as it takes.