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Pretty soon they'll find that humans are less expensive for a given amount of work.
Dogs will do it for belly rubs and $20 in kibble
I think the issue is LLMs can't do a humans job, only be a tool for a human to use. And the tasks it's good at weren't large bottlenecks to begin with.
Some businesses already have. Take Ford for example.
Edit: I guess they're not being hired back because they're "cheaper", but rather because AI couldn't effectively do their job. I suppose that turns out to be cheaper in the long run.
We are getting there - with 4,33 weeks a month that's $866 a month in AI costs. You may get a programmer for that in some offshore countries
The vetting for those offshore programmers ain't worth it tbh.
How many will you go through till you get a competent one? I worked at a company with an office in India and... Maybe 20% of the staff there were gifted and hardworking, 80% were a net detriment to the product we were building.
The office was closed. I hope they kept on the people who were actually good as remote employees but I have no idea.