No, to answer the exam question.
LLMs need driving very carefully for good results. Regardless of the domain they're used in.
If you work for a company that would happily take the output of an untrained school child then I guess it's worry time
800 redundancies at eBay this week - makes you wonder how much of that is due to AI.
I was watching my cat yesterday. He slept on my favourite chair for 13 hours straight. In other words, he used it fully whilst I didn't disturb him at all. He went out, had a fight and I assume chased a lady cat for some action. When hungry, or bored, he issued me a few choice instructions and I complied instantly. He is happy, whilst I do pointless work just for money and to keep up his lifestyle.
Am I the future example for AI? Taking care of a lazy, ****less human pet to do as they please in life?
If so, blue pill please and let me ride my bike 24/7
LLMs need driving very carefully for good results.
Not that carefully in my experience. The latest models write pretty much perfect code. Yes we will still need people to feed them requirements and supervise architecture, but most of the effort in building stuff is in the code production, and that’s gone now. I predict many senior devs will become technically able product managers and owners. All the juniors writing the code will become uber drivers.
All the juniors writing the code will become uber drivers.
Nah the driverless Teslas are going to get that gig.
I commented previously that I think I’m safe - but this morning I’m looking at ripple on a pump flowmeter trace and ChatGPT actually appears to know what equipment this is (only Plant of its type in the UK) and offers correct solutions to the issue.
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Did anyone see the "citrini scenario"?
If AI does rapidly displace jobs, you can't just escape it by working in a trade or manual job. The effects cascade throughout society, and on top of that we already have rising inequality and lowering fertility.
https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic
Depressingly plausible. One bit that it doesn't cover is the geopolitics. Any attempts by states to regulate / tax American AI companies getting tariff'ed / some other retaliation.
I was watching my cat yesterday. He slept on my favourite chair for 13 hours straight. In other words, he used it fully whilst I didn't disturb him at all. He went out, had a fight and I assume chased a lady cat for some action. When hungry, or bored, he issued me a few choice instructions and I complied instantly. He is happy, whilst I do pointless work just for money and to keep up his lifestyle.
Am I the future example for AI? Taking care of a lazy, ****less human pet to do as they please in life?
If so, blue pill please and let me ride my bike 24/7
You are assuming a nice benevolent AI keeper. What if your AI has a taste turfing you out at night to go fighting - my fight to the death skills are proper rusty and I'm a 70Kg office working cyclist so getting up to speed is unlikely.
One bit that it doesn't cover is the geopolitics. Any attempts by states to regulate / tax American AI companies getting tariff'ed / some other retaliation.
A very astute observation. Without wanting to be conspiratorial, I suspect this is the plan and why the US tech industry is so entwined with the Trump administration. They are essentially going to colonise the GDP of foreign states by insourcing work which would normally be done in those countries. The result will be the US (and China) prospering at the cost of everyone else. Unless developed states outside the two AI powers get together to design a regulatory response it's game over. Tax/tariffs on AI services is almost certainly part of that, also regulation to constrain the use in certain sectors to protect as many jobs as possible. They need to get going though, they've only got a couple of years to figure it out.
The only good thing I can see LLMs driving is the inevitability of Universal Basic Income.
Don't see anything inevitable about UBI even in the US, but it is at least barely conceivable there - they can tax their own companies' gigantic AI profits if and when they appear. As per the geopolitical comments above, how does the UK / EU launch UBI for an obsolete workforce? We have been completely left behind in this global technology race.The only good thing I can see LLMs driving is the inevitability of Universal Basic Income.
Ireland probably the exception in the EU in its current role as tax-host to US tech.
The US collectively will not be prospering, a selected group of very rich people will. But not the collective US
Yes the proceeds of AI colonialism will not be shared out equally, but they will probably be shared in some form in order to buy votes from the unemployed middle classes. Trump has already talked about getting rid of income taxes, I have no doubt he would love to do that, probably funded with some of the proceeds from AI. The rest of the world however is f***** unless they quickly get to grips with the threat of significant percentages of their GDP being exported to the US and/or China.
I bet Lloyd Grossman is worried it’s going to ruin his bolognese sauce business
I think theres a place for Ai in furniture design.
Link Ai up to a cnc router and allow it to, well come up with something.
The furniture-maker than becomes effectively the middle man marketer/bench hand joiner
So much for Anthropic and it’s core belief in a moral stance regarding use of their a.i., they fold like the paper they’re coveting
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/25/tech/anthropic-safety-policy-change
The middle classes weren't arsed when it was coal miners and ship builders, maybe software engineers will be voting for right wing populists in 30 years time
I think it's more like the mechanisation of agriculture that the gutting of coal mining.
Modular / off site construction can be hampered by planning conditions such as irregular structures or building heights which don't then suit a " square box" approach that is only efficient and cost effective when turned out on a production line. Simple changes to the standard product like lifting the windows to align with those of the surrounding existing buildings or introducing a feature that is non typical can make the product less cost effective than a traditional build.
Changes in planning in the coming years will ease this and we may then see a take off with modular builds. I for one welcome it as it might actually provide local authorities with a chance to supply actual cheap social rentable accomodation and remove people from the grip of unaffordable crippling landlord rentals.
Your roof is still going to need replacing.
Your boiler is still going to bed repairing or replacing.
You're still going to need a new kitchen/bathroom/boiler/roof at some point.
Those basic maintenance jobs are always going to be there.
And if there's no employment for you, how does one pay for these things? The market for everyone including those working with their hands is going to shrink and the trades will be scrabbling around for well enough paid, employed clients who can afford their prices.
Your roof is still going to need replacing.
Your boiler is still going to bed repairing or replacing.
You're still going to need a new kitchen/bathroom/boiler/roof at some point.
Those basic maintenance jobs are always going to be there.
And if there's no employment for you, how does one pay for these things? The market for everyone including those working with their hands is going to shrink and the trades will be scrabbling around for well enough paid, employed clients who can afford their prices.
Its even worse as the newly un-employed will be re-training as trades.
Governments not going to be happily paying out the new scroungers.
So you’ll end up with a saturated market of people hunting for work which will drop the rates for trades as well.
I'm feeling ok about it at the minute. I'm a videographer/photographer, all of my work involves real people talking on camera about real-world products used to create real music. If it's not that then I'm shooting live gigs. AI can't replicate that stuff, it can try and sometimes look convincing enough to my grandparents but that's about it, and why would it be used to try and recreate a live gig photo or video? The whole point of these images are about capturing a moment in time, not recreating it by what a computer thinks might have happened.
