[goatlover]

The bigger, more controversial claim is that LLMs will be net loss for human jobs, when all past automation has been a net positive. Including IT, where automation has led to a vast growth of software jobs, as more can be accomplished with higher level languages, tools, frameworks, etc.

For example, compilers didn't put programmers out of business in the 60s, it made programming more available to people with higher level languages.

[namaria]

A net positive in the long term matters little when it can mean a lifetime of unemployment to a generation of humans. It's easy to dismiss the human suffering incurred during industrialization when we can enjoy its fruits but those who suffered are long dead.