Lemmings, I was hoping you could help me sort this one out: LLM’s are often painted in a light of being utterly useless, hallucinating word prediction machines that are really bad at what they do. At the same time, in the same thread here on Lemmy, people argue that they are taking our jobs or are making us devs lazy. Which one is it? Could they really be taking our jobs if they’re hallucinating?
Disclaimer: I’m a full time senior dev using the shit out of LLM’s, to get things done at a neck breaking speed, which our clients seem to have gotten used to. However, I don’t see “AI” taking my job, because I think that LLM’s have already peaked, they’re just tweaking minor details now.
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That’s certainly possible - the only data I have is US-based, primarily from SF and NYC, but our smaller hubs are also following similar trends.
It’s bad over there, isn’t it? In your opinion, are LLM’s causing the downward trend in the job market?
Depends what you mean. Hiring at entry-levels has absolutely stalled, but I’ve been at the same shop for 5-10 years, so I’m mostly insulated. The shops that use AI well and those that don’t are going to be very obvious over the next few years. I’m definitely worried for the next 5-10 years of our careers, our jobs have changed SO much in the past year.
Where I live, they keep pushing the retirement age upwards, so I’m looking at working until I die at the ripe age of 79 or something