These writing jobs in print media have mostly disappeared in the UK. It's certainly harder to make a living as a writer today than it was in the 70's and 80's.

And even if they didn't every line of extra code without sufficient abstraction adds cognitive overload.

Putting in a new kitchen or rewiring a house isn't beyond the physical abilities of most people and their customers tend to be the same middle class knowledge workers which AI is expecting to cannibalize.

As to your point about the knowledge being freely available; just as it's easier to ask an LLM about software questions, the same is true for other fields. It might not be accurate, but it doesn't really need to be - it just needs to lower the barrier for people to try.

Basically what I'm saying is that I absolutely expect secondary side effects for the trades if it has a big impact on knowledge workers as well.

A significant amount of demand for both is due to knowledge barriers - and the fact that you need to certify work.

I had quite a bit of success with it and of course, DKIM and the other measures you can take some years back.

For personal emails, I don't think I had any which fed straight into spam.

I don't think that any fan of his is under any illusion that those books are up to his standard, but he has so many good books that his legacy will be safe.

You can change practically every aspect of it; and crucially it's really, really easy like no other editor or program.

My herd of yaks is only getting higher over time...