Hacker News

Favorites Setup
Comment by rwyinuse | original | Grieving the loss of details
[−]rwyinuse · 2026-10-10 Sat 18:42 UTC · link
I agree, and the field possibly not existing in 5 years is a big issue. Like, how are young people supposed to take a mortgage, start a family, or any other big commitments like that, if their whole education and work experience may be useless in a couple of years?

I don't care whether I'm writing code or reviewing LLM generated stuff, but the prospect of losing my job and having to survive on welfare for the rest of my life isn't nice.

[−]ctoth · 2026-10-10 Sat 18:56 UTC · link
From my perspective this is the thing that the people who have been talking about how good these damn things have gotten now were trying to get you to do all along. Understand that they're getting better, it doesn't seem to be stopping, and we really, really need to figure this part out ASAP.

What seems to happen though is it always gets pulled into a discussion of "But they can't X" or "but ma taste!" or the old generic canard "can't replicate what's not in the training data"

All I want is for people to see that yes, this is happening, accept it, then figure out what a good response would be to it. Instead we get everything from stochastic parrot parrots to "Dario is just marketing when he tries to warn us" to the old an thoughtless "But if you think it's bad, why are you doing it?"

Please.

[−]beardbandit · 2026-10-10 Sat 20:12 UTC · link
I mean look at our response to climate change and then look at our response to COVID.

Change doesn't happen until we are at the absolute brink of IMMEDIATE catastrophe.

[−]bagacrap · 2026-10-10 Sat 23:32 UTC · link
most of the people talking about how good they are have been slop jockeys. That doesn't feel like someone who's trying to look out for humanity.
[−]blub · 2026-10-11 Sun 06:59 UTC · link
If the market falls apart there is no solution except learning another job which isn’t (yet) doable by AI.
[−]istypwbasofotso · 2026-10-10 Sat 22:25 UTC · link
Where is the money for welfare coming from if tax from working people is drastically reduced?
[−]rwyinuse · 2026-10-11 Sun 08:16 UTC · link
Taxing profits of companies that use AI probably. I really don't see other way, if AI starts replacing human work in large enough scale. In that situation, without welfare there will be soon nobody buying products and services, leading to an economic collapse.