There are a lot of people still processing how LLMs are going to affect the future of work and generally the sentiment I am getting is somewhat negative. People are worried about their jobs - which I totally get. With new things it can be hard to see where things are going, and the speed of change is thus far unprecedented.

I've gone deep before on this but I'm going to stay concise for this one. If you are worried about your job this is what I would say to you...

Generally, technology and most commerce center around the thesis that it is valuable to reduce human suffering.

Machine learning, transformers, and the rest do actually reduce human suffering. These things have cut out a lot of toil for a lot of people, BUT that toil used to be a job... AND it was a comfortable, well-paying, white-collar job, codifying things and solving little puzzles.

Things that were highly codified can now be spit out quickly by a machine. Code, the law, statistics, building codes, medical knowledge, etc etc.

This is actually a huge gift. Instead of having to worry about the diction, grammar, and syntax of codified things you can now focus on solving problems.

Put another way: the easy problems are solved, we can focus on solving harder problems. As the saying goes: Good soldiers find wars.

So here's your career advice. It's simple, but not easy.

If you want to have a job forever find novel ways to reduce human suffering at scale. I can promise you it will continue to be valuable, and always in demand.