Comment by blibble
3 hours ago
this is the standard consultant vs employee angle
if you're a consultant/contractor that's bid a fixed amount for a job: you're incentivised to slop out as much as possible to hit the complete the contract as quickly as possible
and then if you do a particularly bad job then you'll be probably kept on to fix up the problems
vs. an permanent employee that is incentivised to do the job well, sign it off and move onto the next task
You're making flawed assumptions you have no basis for.
Most of my work is on projects I have a long term vested interest in.
I care far more about maximally leveraging LLMs for the projects I have a vested interest in - if my clients don't want to, that's their business.
Most of my LLM usage directly affects my personal finances in terms of the ROI my non-consulting projects generate - I have far more incentives to do the job well than a permanent employee whose work does not have an immediate effect on their income.