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LLMs will increase...
- The value of leadership / management ability / soft skills / presence
- The value of technical understanding - “technical” broadly construed.
- Deep understanding of law, finance, bio, whatever
LLMs will decrease...
- The # of mid-level knowledge jobs.
- LLMs will make the entry-level workers more effective and provides the upper-level more leverage (raises the floor and ceiling, but hollows the middle)
LLMs will not...
- Replace the "last mile" of any knowledge work.
- As soon as some knowledge work is about to touch the real world, a human will always be involved.
- No business or entity that intends to persist over time is going to copy/paste or trust LLM outputs and call it a day.
- A human will be in the loop, especially near the end.
- This is also, in part, because an LLM will never have full, real-world, up-to-the-second understand of context surrounding a given task.
Good reads on product direction
- Why Chatbots Are Not the Future
- How to Make AI UX Your Moat
- Company Building in the Curiosity Phase of AI - draws a great distinction between "The Incumbent Professional" and "The New Professional"
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