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There's no point at which turning your brain off will work

204 points · 156 comments · robin_reala

gjsman-1000 · 1789752069 · focus · HN ↗
> Let's say that happens. What reason is there for the company to employ the meat proxy? The company can just run the LLM in a loop and lay off the employee. There's no point at which this methodology will work for the employee.
If this is true, turning off the brain... is completely rational. Why burn out the brain for something happening either way? It's not like being fully engaged is going to result in anything that much better for the employee. In a world where code is this disposable, memorizing a codebase that won't recognizably exist in 3 years is also stupid.
1. eloisant · 1789752955 · focus · HN ↗
  And if it's that's true... What reason is there for the company's clients to keep sending money?
  Clients will cut the middle man and run the LLM themselves.
  1. layman51 · 1789755153 · focus · HN ↗
    I’ve pondered this too. I was in a group meeting with a consultant who is upfront with clients that he has started to use Claude heavily to speed up his output. There are probably a lot of clients who would still pay for his services because maybe they still appreciate his input or the relationship and don’t want to go through the pain of figuring out how to replace him with an LLM. It has been my experience that some teams would rather just subscribe to some software or platform even if there’s a free alternative.

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