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Re:Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post by pc86 on Monday June 08, 2026 @07:22AM (#48443936)
You could replace every software engineer on the planet with a perfect LLM tomorrow and it would not lead to mass unemployment-triggered riots. If you're talking about software engineering specifically, you're not correct. If you're talking about all labor, you're talking about something unrelated to the article.
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Re:Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post by philipwhiuk on Monday June 08, 2026 @07:53AM (#48444197)
The job of software engineering is more or less literally to automate every other job. If there are no software engineers it's because everything is or has been automated. If AI isn't capable of that then there's still software engineering to do and your argument collapses.
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Re:Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post by vrganj on Monday June 08, 2026 @07:23AM (#48443943)
To quote the article:

> Take copywriting. It was a profession that took years to master and paid well. This changed slowly as more professionals joined the market, even after the demand spike driven by ecommerce and adtech. Now, LLMs have destroyed the job for the vast majority of professionals.

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Re:Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post by queenkjuul on Monday June 08, 2026 @08:21AM (#48444408)
The article very explicitly discusses the replacement of all knowledge workers. You sure you read it?
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