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"Throw ideas and see what sticks" sounds very entry-level. Maybe it saves time it would take for one of your team to read first two chapters of a book on the topic.

That exec was hiring consultant and no longer is, in meaningful proportion, thanks to LLM?






Thing is, most code is written by entry-level/junior programmers, as the whole career path has been stacked to start grooming you for management afterwards, and anything beyond senior level is basically faux-management (all the responsibilities, none of the prestige). LLMs, dirt-cheap as they are and only getting cheaper, are very much in position to compete with the bulk of workforce in software industry.

I don't know how things are in other white-collar industries (except wrt. creative jobs like copywriting and graphics design, where generative AI is even better at the job as it is at coding), but the incentives are similar so I expect most of the actual work is done by juniors anyway, and subject to replacement by models less sophisticated than people would like to imagine they need to be.




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