> I'm glad to see very poor coverage for transportation jobs on the AI benchmarks. May that continue until I'm done flying, at least AI probably won't ruin that for me any time soon.

No offense but pilots are probably at peak automation since their job has mostly been reduced to being a glorified AutoPilot system babysitters mainly needed for regulatory hedging. The ground transportation is still fair game though.

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jazzyjackson 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Being responsible for knowing what to do when autopilot fails has pretty good job security actually. The job might be babysitting, but no one wants to be in a flying tube without a captain that can at least let us know when we’re all going to die

	▲	caaqil an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> no one wants to be in a flying tube without a captain that can at least let us know when we’re all going to die I'm not sure how the news being delivered by a carbon-based pilot would help with the dying part but I guess hospice care exists for a reason.

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dghlsakjg an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You’ve never been in a cockpit while a plane has been flying have you?

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weaksauce 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

do you actually understand how modern airplanes work in practice or is this just based off the fact that an airplane can land by itself?

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jpalawaga 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

is there a reason to think swe won't become the same? llm pilot, accountability guy, and has enough skill to manually pilot in extraneous situations.

	▲	azornathogron 29 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Pilots can do that because they go through a ton of training and they deliberately do things to maintain their manual flying skills, including regularly taking manual control outside emergencies when the autopilot could fly perfectly well. And when a pilot takes control "for practice" there's no reduction in productivity for the airline compared to if the pilot is sitting in the seat with the autopilot engaged. How can software engineers maintain a healthy "manual programming" skill set? What employer would be willing to pay for so much wasted time for their software engineers to do deliberate training courses, or willing to accept the productivity loss from their engineers occasionally working manually for practice, when working manually is so much slower?