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Totally selected the wrong meme for the old title, but here we are.

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[–] 40 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I would, but now there's free LLM's that can do what I do literally for free and 1000x faster.

Past that, I have no marketable skills that a modern LLM doesn't also have, and better. I very much doubt I'm alone in this. Between now and say, two to five years tops, my employers will know it too.

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  • [–] 64 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    File LLMs under "confidently doing it wrong". They don't know anything, they just parrot what was scraped off the internet

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Not disagreeing, but what does that help the thousands who will still lose their jobs regardless?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Just wait it out ..... being confidently wrong only works for a limited time until people realize it isn't working at all .... and the point at which people, especially corporate leaders, realize it isn't working is the point when they start seeing that they aren't making money any more.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    Irrigation, mechanization, computers, internet, web search and now LLMs destroyed jobs but also created new ones, often more qualified and better paid if you learned to use the new tech. Why would this suddenly change today? Just learn to use it like you learned to use web search and adapt to the jobs evolutions that are coming from it.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Funnily enough, that’s also what a large portion of people do too, just regurgitate stuff without comprehending its meaning.

    Lots of people get phds masters and bachelors while just being able to answer textbook questions, start questioning them to get them to apply that knowledge and it’s just air. It’s literally what people call “book smart” vs “street smart”.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    start questioning them to get them to apply that knowledge

    That's literally what people do to get a PhD, they defend their thesis by answering a bunch of questions from professors about it. That's the point of a PhD.

    It has nothing to do with "street smarts" unless the degree is from the "School of Hard Knocks".

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Sorry maybe not phds specifically, but masters and bachelors definitely. Lots of certificates and qualifications require just written tests, no practical testing.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ok, but you specifically said "PhD". Your comment sounds like you just don't know what a doctorate is.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    And I made a mistake, it happens and I even admitted it and provided the proper examples.

    Very few qualifications require practical testing, if you want to circle a discussion on the one I made a mistake on in choosing that’s on you.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Ok, but you said "lots of people get PhDs" without being able to defend their ideas. It's literally the opposite.

    No one gets a PhD without being able to defend their ideas from very hard questions. You are 100% incorrect. Your dissertation defense did not go well and we cannot award you the degree of "Doctorate of Commenting".

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