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Here's the question I want to posit and nobody who's against AI has managed to answer satisfactorily: what is it in for me if I were to acquire all those skills?

I don't give a shit about this career. I don't give a shit about engineering. I despise every second of it. There's nothing to aim for other than being a drone that does whatever is asked of it.

If AI can reduce my mental workload, why wouldn't I want to delegate everything over to it so I can save my faculties for what I truly enjoy? For the art of a worthless craft?

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Some people enjoy working with computers. :) It is not always about the money. It is also about having fun and learning new things.

For you, it seems that you are not cut for it judging from what you say.

So yes, use LLMs.

Why are you employable if the AI does everything for you?

Mostly to do the work that AI can't do just yet. I've got the feeling that, by the time AI can do those jobs, we'll be mired in bigger issues.

I mean… there's other jobs in the world. If you chose to do something you hate, that's maybe a bit your fault too?

Tell me where these mythical jobs that won't leave me broke as shit and that I'll enjoy are. I'm very much a humanities person, and it was already a sad tragicomedy of a sphere before AI hit the ground. It's probably even more dire now, let's be real.

And I don't have the personality for running a start-up or any company, unfortunately. I'm extremely risk-averse and withdrawn. If I really had no other choice, I'd probably have to budget in a ton of... chemical helpers (stimulants).

I think you hate life in general more than just your job.

Anyway statistician, accountant, teacher, are indeed jobs, and I assure you they aren't found living on the streets.

>I think you hate life in general more than just your job.

Well, yeah, I do. I don't even have a good reason to, I'm just fundamentally incomplete and wrong.

>Anyway statistician, accountant, teacher, are indeed jobs, and I assure you they aren't found living on the streets.

That's true, I suppose. It's too late now, though. I'd have to start from scratch and probably go to college again, which I fucking despised and I wanted everyone around me dead.

I like to whine, but this career was the least bad choice. I just wish there were good ones.

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