Comment by curt15
11 hours ago
The frontier labs themselves are still hiring hordes of human "account associates", "android engineers", and "data scientists" (https://openai.com/careers/search/), when they would be better positioned than anyone to leverage state-of-the art AI capabilities.
Yeah, and I keep wondering why.
They need top talent to operate the current generation of models, that's at the mediocre-talent level, in order to teach the next generation how to operate at their level, and eventually above. After which, they won't be needed anymore.
Because LLMs are a tool.
They are best placed to not fall for their own marketing claim that their tool can replace engineers.
Because either:
1) They are knowingly lying about AI being at human replacement level rather than a useful developer tool
AND/OR
2) They think they are special, and that their software developers ("AI researchers") are doing harder stuff than those most other companies
They can hire more people and still be massively augmented by AI.