Comment by auxiliarymoose
3 days ago
High quality writing (e.g. MDN Web Docs, Go Documentation, internal docs) does not have a tendency to include mistakes or incorrect reasoning because it comes from a place of clear thinking and goes through a continuous process of peer review and improvement.
LLMs outputs are, at best, first drafts that have not been reviewed or revised, and they certainly do not have analytical reasoning behind their content.
I am not claiming that my domain is uniquely challenging, but the statements I made are factual for my work (and likely many adjacent fields, too).
Would you trust your life to a pacemaker or aircraft control system designed and manufactured quickly by people without a correct understanding of what they are developing, working purely off of information from the Internet and other semi-public sources? I wouldn't. But maybe you are braver than me!
Nobody here is talking about the pacemakers nor am I suggesting that AI will be replacing 100% of working force.
While we are at writing documentation, did you hear about the latest layoffs from MySQL which, among others, impacted heavily the documentation team as well cutting their size from 8 to 3 people?
I mean, the software I develop is the system of record for the engineering and development of medical devices (and aerospace, automotive, industrial, etc. systems). So pacemakers and aircraft are relevant examples.
I hadn't heard about the MySQL layoffs. I hope the affected people find good new opportunities.
I tried to give a counter-example of people being replaced in an extremely complex piece of software as we speak. This may or may not be related to AI but I am inclined to think that there is some correlation - yesterday 8 people in the team, today 3, tomorrow who knows, maybe only a single guy.