Could you elaborate on your last sentence please?

Mathematics in its current form, you say? Like, for example, when we transitioned from doing things manually to using calculators/computers?

I personally like AI but it has definitely shifted my job. There is less "writing code", more "reviewing code", and more "writing sentences in English". I can understand people being frustrated.

To me it's like a halfway step toward management. When you start being a manager, you also start writing less code and having a lot more conversations.

> It's because I still need to earn a living and this technology threatens my ability to do so in the near future.

That's certainly not the reason most HNers are giving - I'm seeing far more claims that LLMs are entirely meaningless becauzs either "they cannot make something they haven't seen before" or "half the time they hallucinate". The latter even appears as one of the first replies in this post's link, the X thread!

Well yea, but school also tried to educate us for the unforeseen future.

Or at least my school system tried to (Netherlands).

This didn’t fully come out of the blue. We have been told to expect the unexpected.

given that there had never been a technological advancement that was successfully halted to preserve the jobs it threatened to make obsolete, don't you see the futility of complaining about it? even if there was widespread opposition to AI - and no, there isn't - the capital would disregard it. no ragtag team of quirky rebels are going to blow up this multi-trillion dollar death star.

Humans are risk averse and loss averse. You see the downsides and are fearful but can't yet see the upsides or underestimate them. Why not make the same argument for internet and computers? We would've been better off without them? If AI makes doctors more efficient would you have your child die to make the doctor's life more fulfilling?

It's not even that enjoyable to review AI slop all day. So it's a brief and unejoyable era before the long and miserable era.