Comment by bowsamic

This is a very good point.

I have very similar thoughts after working with Cursor for a month and reviewing a lot of “vibe” code. I see the value of LLMs, but I also see what they don’t deliver.

At the same time, I am fully aware of different skill levels, backgrounds and approaches to work in the industry.

I expect two trends - salaries will become much higher, as an individual leverage will continue to grow. At the same time, demand for relatively low skill work will go to zero.

This is well put and something I have tried to express to people.

Long before LLMs came onto the scene, I was telling people (like friends and family trying to understand what I do at work) that the actual coding part of the job is the least valuable, but that you just do still have to be able to write the code once you do the more valuable work of figuring out what to write.

But LLMs have made that distinction far more clear than I ever imagined. And I have found that for all my previous talk about it, I clearly still felt that the "writing the code" part was an important portion of my contribution, and have found it jarring to rebalance my conception of where I can contribute value.

Except that every month bits of that value get chipped off.

> LLMs offered a much needed contrast that allowed me to understand the true value of what I do. Before LLMs I took it for granted

I've found this to be true of all generative AI to date. I have a clearer sense of where most of the value lies in most writing, imagery, code, and music.

I have a better sense of what having good taste (or any taste at all) means, and what the value of even seemingly trivial human decision-making is.