Same with consultancy. There is a huge amount of automation that can be done with current gen LLMs, as long as you keep their shortcomings in mind. The "stochastic parrot" crowd seems an over correction to the hype bros.
It's because the kind of person who understands nuance isn't the kind of person to post in HN flame wars.
The industry is still in it's infancy right now, and stuff can change in 3-5 years.
Heck, 5 years ago models like GPT-4o were considered unrealistic in scale, and funding in the AI/ML space was drying up at the expense of crypto and cybersecurity. Yet look at the industry today.
We're still very early and there are a lot of opportunities that are going to be discovered or are in the process of being discovered.
The industry is still in it's infancy right now, and stuff can change in 3-5 years.
Heck, 5 years ago models like GPT-4o were considered unrealistic in scale, and funding in the AI/ML space was drying up at the expense of crypto and cybersecurity. Yet look at the industry today.
We're still very early and there are a lot of opportunities that are going to be discovered or are in the process of being discovered.