Will AI take your job?

One of the more useful and instructive posts here. People ignore this stuff at their peril

I'll give you an example of what I recently did, using standard ChatGPT.

I had a medical problem so I went to the Doctor last April. He said it was migrane related. I put my symptoms into ChatGPT, which suggested I get an MRI. I went back to my doctor, and they agreed for me to get the MRI.

I got a link to the scans emailed to me, so I took some screenshots and uploaded those to ChatGPT. It analysed the images and told me exactly what the problem was. A week later, by own GP came back with exactly the same results from the radiologist, but much less detailed. I got an appointment to see a neurologist in but in one year's time!

Not wanting to wait that long for a condition that can deteriorate, I am now following a ChatGPT treatment program, and am getting better with it.

So, if plain old out of the box ChatGPT can do all that, imagine what a custom RAG will do? I can't see how legal advice will be much of a challenge for it.

We have replaced a junior developer (who left to get another job) with Claude [AI] and no meaningful difference in quality.

Realistically I (senior developer) will be replaced with AI within the next 3 years. It works very well in the constrained environment of a programming language with a huge training set…all the open source code ever developed.

Possibly: That's missing a huge amount of what some individuals attend doctors for, vague symptoms, validation for adopting the sick role, or mental health issues, looking for a medical prescription for modern maladies of feeling of loneliness, unhappiness, and dissatisfaction with life. It's not as simple as saying here is a list of symptoms to an online AI doctor.

Absolutely.

I also did go to the GP first, as my first port of call. I was mis-diagnosed. I could have spent the money on a few months of ChatGPT plus instead!

He's literally detailed how its worked for him for the better in his health.

Not using it as a doctor but feedback is nothing wrong with it

so confident and so wrong

Spend less time writing code and in particular writing tests which is always a pain.

The key is being explicit about what you want in as much detail as possible and then the results usually turn out as expected.

Think of it as AI laying out the ingredients for a cake, mixing the ingredients together while being observed by the chef, then the chef puts it in the oven and adds the toppings.

It frees up more time for testing and bug fixing which would generally be done by humans.

As in do projects get done faster? Well yeah 😀