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Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light... by aprilthird2021 on Monday December 16, 2024 @10:08PM (#42437969)
Okay, but one thing you kinda miss is that trading (e.g. investing) is still one of the largest ways for people to make money. Even passively investing in ETFs is extremely lucrative.

If LLMs become so good that everyone can just let an LLM go into the world and make them money, the way we do with our investments, won't that be good?

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Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light... by dogman144 on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @04:45PM (#42445629)
you are missing that trading in what I’m talking about != “e.g investing.”

And, certainly, prob a good thing for some, bad thing for the money conveyor belt of the last 20 yrs of tech careers.

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Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light... by aprilthird2021 on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @03:50AM (#42449019)
I am not missing that. I understand the difference. I'm saying the economic engine behind trading is still good (investing). So while people don't do the trading as much (machines do it), the economic rewards are still there and we can still capture them. The same may be true in a potential future where software becomes automated.
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Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light... by parentheses on Friday December 20, 2024 @01:47PM (#42473681)
The financial markets are a 0 sum game mostly. This approach would not work.
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