Comment by techblueberry
7 hours ago
The problem is in most environments Bob won’t spend the rest of the year figuring out what the LLM did, because bob will be busy promoting the LLM for the next deliverable, and the problem is that if all bob has time for us to prompt LLMs, and not understand, there will be a ceiling to Bob’s potential.
This won’t affect everyone equally. Some Bob’s will nerd out and spend their free time learning, but other Bob’s won’t.
Why would bob only have time to promote llms? Strange strawman. Many uni courses always had a level of you get out what you put in, it’s the same with LLMs.
Why would the university look at the amount of work a student get done, conclude the student can get 12x done because they can do a years work in a month and not make the student do 12x more work?
And it’s not strictly speaking university we’re talking about. The way we understand work is going to fundamentally change. And we’re not going to value the people who use LLMs to get 1x done.
But yes, university was always about how much work you put into it, and LLM’s are going to make that 10x more obvious.
The point is the Bob and Alice comparison is already a straw man, but I do squarely believe it’s the people with the best mental models and not the people who “get AI” who will win the new world. If you’re curious and good at developing mental models, you can learn “AI” in a week. But if you’re curious and good at developing mental models you’ve probably already lapped both Bob and Alice
Honestly I’m not going to review the thread to see if we got our wires crossed at some point, but I agree with your last comment!