The AI fork in the road

If AI can do part of your job, you're likely to either be fired or promoted.

AI will always have some error rate, and if it can do your job at an acceptable error rate, you'll need to find another job.

But if the error rate is not acceptable, the ability to identify and fix errors becomes more valuable.

People with the experience to recognize errors and fix them quickly are more productive when delegating work to AI. Higher productivity should result in higher wages, though you may have to become self-employed to be paid more for getting more done.

Contractors and consultants are more often paid in proportion to the value of their work than salaried employees are, especially since 1971.

Recognizing errors takes experience. This is especially true of LLM-generated errors because LLMs always return plausible results (according to some model) though they do not always return correct results.

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