Do LLMs make you feel like you've lost your edge?

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They didn&rsquo;t kill me but they wounded me. The edge I carried all my life? Now it feels cheap. I still think. I still write. But they do it faster, cleaner. There&rsquo;s still a spark in me, creativity isn&rsquo;t theirs yet. But even that I feel it slipping through my fingers.They&rsquo;ll kill (figuratively) almost all of us. Maybe they already have, and people just haven&rsquo;t realized it. LLMs are &laquo;zombifying&raquo; us.Sorry to depress your Sunday. Thoughts?

jb_briant · Accepted Answer

Software engineer here, using LLM for coding is shifting the job from mono tasking to multi tasking.
I have several agents runing in parallel, they require inputs every 1 to 5 minutes.
Im switching context all the time, and I must hold a larger context in my brain RAM instead of being focused on a single topic.
I'm not writing code anymore for web development.
On the other side, when doing game dev, with all the spatial geometry necessary, LLM are useless 97% of thr time.

ben_w · Answer

Yeah.For most of my adult life, employment advice has been a T-shaped profile: Something you're very good at, plus a broad base of things you can work on even though you'd not be amazing at it.I'm a general nerd, went through as much of brilliant.org as I could during the pandemic*, PBS Space Time and 3blue1brown videos, TWIML&AI podcasts, write for fun, hobby level interest in nuclear physics** and space, etc. &mdash; yet the original ChatGPT, mediocre as it was, was above the general knowledge threshold I had made for myself, and now only my single pillar of competence that remains, an I-shape profile instead of T-shape.But even there, I have to wonder what the business value of that technical competence is, compared to the different skill that is "effective use of the LLMs": a user of an app does not care how clean the code is, they only care if it solves a problem they have.* Looking at more recent updates, I think it was better material back then** Still not actually built that Farnsworth&hellip;