Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?

Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light... by layer8 on Monday December 16, 2024 @04:41PM (#42435765)

You can’t extrapolate the future trajectory of progress from the past. It comes in pushes and phases. We had long phases of AI stagnation in the past, we might see them again. The past five years or so might turn out to be a phase transition from pre-LLM to post-LLM, rather than the beginning of endless dramatic improvements.

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Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light... by _heimdall on Monday December 16, 2024 @07:45PM (#42437164)

> It comes in pushes and phases. We had long phases of AI stagnation in the past

Isn't that still extrapolating the future from the past? You see a pattern if pushes and phases and are assuming that's what we will see again.

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Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light... by shadowerm on Monday December 16, 2024 @07:31PM (#42437087)

It would be different too if we didn't know the secret sauce here is massive amounts of data and the jump process was directly related to a jump in the amount of data.

Some of the logic here is akin to how I have lost 30lbs in 2024 so at this pace I will weigh -120lbs by 2034!

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