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New comment by weatherlite in "Claude Fable 5"

weatherlite — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:18:48 +0000

Yeah I agree. We're headed into a rougher job market pretty much across the board for white collar work , hitting junior people worse at this stage. Up to societies around the world to decide how to deal with this - so far we deal with it by ignoring it it seems.

New comment by weatherlite in "Claude Fable 5"

weatherlite — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:05:10 +0000

> this is the first model that feels like its coming for my job

Damn you must be good, I've been feeling this for around 2 years now

New comment by weatherlite in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

weatherlite — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:36:09 +0000

I kinda agree I mean almost no one writes code by hand anymore but it doesn't mean we don't contribute any value anymore. I wouldn't exchange the entire r&d department with Claude yet - would you ?

New comment by weatherlite in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

weatherlite — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:18:02 +0000

It's possible , yes. For now I'm betting against it, we'll see.

New comment by weatherlite in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

weatherlite — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:48:37 +0000

I agree but I think it would take awhile. Some of us here seem to believe 2026-2027 is the end of programming jobs. At least that's Amodei seemed to be saying but then changed his mind later on?

New comment by weatherlite in "AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study"

weatherlite — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:15:58 +0000

It is important for society to understand it is not merely programmers and customer support who are at risk of losing their jobs. Clearly A.I can do much more than just program.

New comment by weatherlite in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

weatherlite — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:10:54 +0000

Do we prefer the market will spit or swallow in this case?

New comment by weatherlite in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

weatherlite — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:19:03 +0000

Talking to them online ? I think most of us will be better off without the huge amounts of online toxicity.

New comment by weatherlite in "Where does next-token prediction leave us?"

weatherlite — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:44:38 +0000

You're not wrong. A bit too bleak perhaps but yeah everything you said is mostly factual. Society is a hypocritical shit show it is what it is.

New comment by weatherlite in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

weatherlite — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:41:31 +0000

What's so great about talking to real people?

New comment by weatherlite in "Where does next-token prediction leave us?"

weatherlite — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:33:47 +0000

> I want that type of sadness back, please. Right now I'm relieved if anything to know I won't see 2126 and beyond, but that's not because I'm inherently pessimistic, I came to this world optimistic as can be.

This is normal I think. You grew up. Not wanting to live forever is totally sensible.

New comment by weatherlite in "Where does next-token prediction leave us?"

weatherlite — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:26:29 +0000

Yep. I don't have good answers and neither do our politicians. Things will have to change rather radically.

New comment by weatherlite in "Where does next-token prediction leave us?"

weatherlite — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:58:13 +0000

I don't get how this didn't become yet a major election topic in most democracies. It's business as usual mostly.

New comment by weatherlite in "Where does next-token prediction leave us?"

weatherlite — Wed, 27 May 2026 07:00:00 +0000

> I think it’s small minded people like you, only preoccupied with your small little niche that can’t see why more open minded people see so much potential in the technology, whether it directly benefits them or not.

Ah yes the small minded people worrying about their mortgages, purchasing power, and basically identity and social status. You know those small things we all work towards all of our lives.

New comment by weatherlite in "Where does next-token prediction leave us?"

weatherlite — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:46:51 +0000

I thought the same but i dont think so anymore. My wife is a senior manager at a big 4 consultancy gig and she says copilot became freaking good at understanding tax, multinational company structure etc etc. Even if you need a few partners and experts at the top to validate things you can cut huge amounts of workers.

New comment by weatherlite in "Where does next-token prediction leave us?"

weatherlite — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:41:30 +0000

> You think every person only thinks of their own job and no one dreams of anything bigger from humanity’s perspective?

Yes, the vast majority of people care about their jobs first rather than a theoretical future where mostly rich people colonize space. It's much easier to imagine yourself becoming poor than living in Mars.

New comment by weatherlite in "Where does next-token prediction leave us?"

weatherlite — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:37:27 +0000

How does he afford a plumber then ...?

New comment by weatherlite in "Where does next-token prediction leave us?"

weatherlite — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:36:30 +0000

Will so many people switch to plumbing though ? Really depends on how old you are when you get canned (I don't think its realistic for most 40 year olds to start a plumbing career), how good you are with your hands and physical things and whether you can survive the switch psychologically; I don't see many investment bankers or software devs survive such a switch. I'm 42, even if I was very good with my hands (which I'm not) I don't think it would have been a realistic transition; by realistic I mean survivable psychologically.

New comment by weatherlite in "Where does next-token prediction leave us?"

weatherlite — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:32:55 +0000

Perhaps the feeling is that in a competitive society (which most of us live in) as long as things aren't collapsing I don't see why a plumber/doctor should care if a bunch of lawyers and software devs will be out of a job. They will become relatively wealthier even if their income is taking a hit. Their purchasing power should rise if most of white collar work is collapsing.

New comment by weatherlite in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

weatherlite — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:19:48 +0000

It's not a great definition but it's also not a terrible one either. For an AI system to be able to do all or even most of the jobs in an economy it has to be well rounded in a way it still isn't today, meaning: reliability, planning, long term memory, physical world manipulation etc. A system that can do all of that well enough so it can do the jobs of doctors, programmers and plumbers is generally intelligent in my view.