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Re:Women Who Code Closing by elktown on Friday April 19, 2024 @08:02AM (#40085719)
> The reason why coding pays so well is because it's IQ-gated in a way that plumbing isn't.

Pretty rich by someone with a comment history littered with AI delusions:

> AI will largely replace software developers very soon, along with most professions.*

That doesn't strike me as a very intelligent take.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39822358

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Re:Women Who Code Closing by atleastoptimal on Friday April 19, 2024 @05:00PM (#40091836)
people are losing their jobs at a rapid rate now due to AI. People who can’t see the trends and think AI will simply stop improving, or that humans have some intractable capacity that no machine could ever replicate is very wishful thinking.

My opinion is also shared by a lot of intelligent researchers (like Hinton). Is he deluded, as you put it?

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Re:Women Who Code Closing by elktown on Saturday April 20, 2024 @09:11AM (#40097121)
> people are losing their jobs at a rapid rate now due to AI

No, they aren't.

> Is he deluded, as you put it?

I don't know what each for your apostles has said. But anyone who claims that with just a hyped up LLM behind them is.

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