[nacozarina]

LLMs drive the unit cost of cognition to zero. Therefore, you will exhaust yourself near-instantly trying to drive differentiated value out of cognitive work. Non-arbitrable labor is one safe haven: bending steel, drilling wells, running cables, flying drones, etc. Physical agency gets you a premium the clankers can’t (yet?) trespass upon. That’s why guys building data centers are making bank & job-hopping while the SAs administering the computational guts of them are struggling. A second vector is reputational: either by authority (you’re a regulator) or by taste (you’re a rare/reknown specialist) you make quality attestations about cheaply-produced cognitive artifacts. The first vector is a big community; the second is not. Get out of being in a knife fight with the clankers on their own turf, they’ll gut you.

[ehnto]

Flying drones is an interesting one, I guess you do have to drive the car out to site and set up the drone. But a lot of drone ops are waypointed, automatic flight. I can see a future in which the only thing the operator does is drive the drone van to site, hit the deploy button as the drone pops out the roof, and wait for it to return. Mission set up already by an LLM prompt back at the office.

[imhoguy]

I bet drone van is the next thing to be automated.

[reverius42]

For legal reasons, a human will still need to be in the self-driving van, so the job description will change to "drone van chaperone".

[Freak_NL]

Or 'drone accident scapegoat'.

[intended]

I’d scope it down further than cognition.

Cost of generation has been reduced, and is highly subsidized currently.

Cost of verification has effectively not changed. I’d say as a rule of thumb: verification is the tough part.

Our brains don’t fare well under constant review pressure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironies_of_Automation

[Planktonne]

> LLMs drive the unit cost of cognition to zero.

This isn't the problem; the problem is that people incorrectly believe it to be true.

[zahlman]

> LLMs drive the unit cost of cognition to zero.

Then why are so many others in the thread reporting being swamped with requests to review coworkers' slop? If it's genuinely "cognition" at trivial cost, surely this review would be completely unnecessary?