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·8 mesi fa·discuss
Good or bad, converting craft work to production work is not making the craft worker more productive, it's eliminating the craft worker.

The unskilled operator's position is also precarious, as you point out, but while it lasts, it's a different and (arguably) less satisfying form of work.

The LLM is not a table saw that makes a carpenter faster, it's an automatic machine that makes an owner's capital more efficient.
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·8 mesi fa·discuss
A LLM is more like a CNC panel saw; feed a sheet in one end, stack up parts from the other.

It reduces craftsmanship to unskilled labor.

The design work and thinking happen somewhere else. The operator comes in, punches a clock, and chokes on MDF dust for 8 hours.
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·8 mesi fa·discuss
Dude, some skeezy used car salesman type bought the bike and made a 350 pound profit.

Literally no one involved cared about getting the best price except the bottom-feeders attending the auction.
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·9 mesi fa·discuss
I'd have spent my twenties writing free software if I could count on $1500/month.

It would have been so great.
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·9 mesi fa·discuss
For cars that are out of warranty, it is an advantage, as the car will be scrapped sooner, thereby opening up a hole in the market that needs to be filled with a new car.

An advantage to the manufacturer, that is. For the consumer, it leads to never ending car payments for life, or surprise bills that approach the cost of a replacement vehicle.