[apwell23]

> At the time I worked at a company that did just that, succesfully automating away thousands of jobs which couldn't pre-LLMs.

which company is this? surely they wouldve made a big splash for doing something no one else has been able to do.

[deaux]

Did you not see the backlash the Duolingo CEO got and how hard he backtracked? Coming out and saying "We're replacing a big bunch of people with LLMs" is about the worst PR you can get in 2025, it's really an wful idea for anyone but maybe pure B2B companies that are barely hanging on and super desperate for investor cash.

This was a big, traditional non-tech company.

Also as implied, these were cheap offshore contracting jobs being replaced. Still magnitudes more expensive than LLMs, making it very "worth it" from a company perspective. But not prime earnings call material.

Everyone in the industry also knows that it's not particularly unique, far away from something no one has been able to do. Go look at the job markets for translation, data entry, customer support compared to 2 years ago. And as mentioned, even junior web devs.