It's not anthropomorphising though, is it? It's just a comparison of the tool's ability. Like talking about the horsepower of an engine.

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somewhereoutth 3 days ago | parent [-]

But we didn't do this with spreadsheets or word processors - and those tools really did replace small armies of clerical and secretarial workers.

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lubujackson 3 days ago | parent [-]

The difference is AI is closing on doing the EXACT work with the EXACT info as a junior dev. Give an LLM a Jira ticket and a codebase and it can push a PR. Spreadsheets are great, but that was a tool that minimized effort but didn't remove it. LLMs can directly replace a remote junior with no visible difference already.

	▲	somewhereoutth 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> Give an LLM a Jira ticket and a codebase and it can push a PR Not really though can it, unless that codebase and Jira happens to pattern match correctly somewhere. I'd say that the difference is just that LLMs have a natural language interface (for good or for ill).