Comment by tdeck
1 year ago
To play devil's advocate here, it takes time for society to orient around new technologies and make them feel indispensable.
If smartphones had disappeared in 2008, most users would be mildly inconvenienced. They'd go back to using a flip phone and a TomTom, or printing out map directions, and sending emails on their laptop with WiFi. No employer expected them to have a chat app on their phone* or use PagerDuty, no businesses required them to download an app to purchase services. People called taxis on the phone.
Perhaps in 5-10 years people will stop putting any effort into documentation or organizing information, (some companies are already ahead of the curve on this one) and our jobs will become that much harder without an LLM to sift through all the information.
* I'm ignoring the BlackBerry world here which was always pretty niche.
> Perhaps in 5-10 years people will stop putting any effort into documentation or organizing information
The LLM needs the documentation more than I do
LLMs (or other AIs) of the future may well get better than humans at reading badly written documentation, filling in gaps by cross-referencing multiple sources, or learning APIs entirely from reading uncommented source code...