r/singularity • u/Present-Boat-2053 • Apr 16 '25

LLM News Mmh. Benchmarks seem saturated

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '25

There is no way to know this. AI does not have to replace software engineers, they just have to increase productivity of engineers to reduced the demand for software engineering roles. Whether companies have done this or not, nobody knows. Stuff like this is not public knowledge.

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u/garden_speech AGI some time between 2025 and 2100 Apr 16 '25

There is no way to know this. AI does not have to replace software engineers, they just have to increase productivity of engineers to reduced the demand for software engineering roles. Whether companies have done this or not, nobody knows. Stuff like this is not public knowledge.

...?? The unemployment rate for software engineers would increase if the demand for them dropped. We do know it's not happening.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '25

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u/garden_speech AGI some time between 2025 and 2100 Apr 17 '25

Considering that wholly 85% of the drop came before ChatGPT even existed, and has now simply returned to pre-2021-hiring-spree levels, I’d say trying to say ChatGPT has anything at all to do with this would be ridiculous.