That's probably the mechanism by which AI will take over many jobs:
1. Skilled people do a good job, AI does a not-so-good job.
2. AI users get dumbed down so they can't do any better. Mediocrity normalized.
3. Replace the AI users with AI.
1. Skilled people do a good job, AI does a not-so-good job.
2. AI users get dumbed down so they can't do any better. Mediocrity normalized.
3. Replace the AI users with AI.
Kinda sorta. Little hobbyist projects can do better on relatively small and focused stuff, where the passion of a couple part-time people can cut through the crap that would be created by a thousand half-ass mythical man-month producers.
However, for a lot of stuff, only a "billion dollar company" (or other organization) can do it. Stuff with a lot of unavoidable but unrewarding scut work (e.g. web scraper maintenance) or stuff that requires more focus and effort than a couple of passionate part-time people can provide.
Also, it'll be interesting to see how LLM prompt writing develops as a skill unto itself.
MIT already offers an online prompt engineering course as of a year ago so I'm sure it already has.