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> Extraordinarily talented people are doing work that LLMs already do better, out of spite.

So what, people should just stop doing any tasks that LLMs do subjectively better?

I don't know the full answer to this question, but I have a partial answer: they should at least stop doing tedious tasks that LLMs do better.

Some of us thrive in tedium, and also do it better than bots.

And then sit in shock when you're replaced with an auto-loom.

Unrelated to your friends, but a big part of learning is to do tedious tasks. Maybe once you master a topic LLMs can be better, but for many folks out there, using LLMs as a shortcut can impede learning.

I'm ~8,000 XP into MathAcademy right now, doing the calculus stuff I skipped by not going to college. I'm doing a lot, lot, lot of tedious practice. But I know why I'm doing it, and when I'm doing doing it, I'm going to go back to using SageMath to do actual work.

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