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by boshalfoshal 96 days ago
Answer: Any job where the majority (or all) of your work can be done strictly by using a computer, and for tasks that have easily verifiable and objective outcomes. And from an economic perspective, jobs that have the highest cost (i.e, highest margins for AI companies to replace) have a strong economic incentive to be automated first. So Software, Finance, Accounting, Law, etc.

Yes - this means software engineers are likely the first to go, along with other high paying computer jobs.
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j3k3 96 days ago
One thing that irks me about this place is the great-confidence people make claims, when they have zero idea about stuff outside of their domain.

I know ten people who work across Accounting and Finance in high-level positions who have all told me that in the past few months, the LLM-steam has wore off and they aren't seeing any material benefits.

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deterministic 96 days ago
> this means software engineers are likely the first to go

Nope. Grab a random person off the street and ask them to write Enterprise software using an AI. Good luck with that.

The job will change but it still requires a lot of deep knowledge about software development to be effective with AI.

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