I’m sorry you felt condescended to, but I don’t see what “the shit” here is. The author of this thesis has an agenda, and much nonsense has been spilled by people who do not deserve a platform.

Do you mean automation in general? Yes we’ve been automating everything for a long time, and LLMs are another step in that line — but as someone who works with them every day and is still heavily hiring with large salaries — the “depression” isn’t from LLMs as a tool, or a threat to replace humans, but from a heavy handed directive foisted by executives who no longer know what grass looks like anymore.

Its the inversion of skill in the workplace where senior reviewers are at the mercy of early career developers who used to be constrained by their talent level — now unleashed by LLM to generate slop they can barely control, the most talented seniors are being crushed by slop while trying to keep the lights on, while management is laying off the same and rewarding the slop makers, so they can collect huge bonuses and move on before the load bearing engineers give out.

This is a management problem at publicly traded companies. And that is “the shoe in the other foot”? If you say so.

Mark my words — by the time token prices stabilize to reflect their actual cost, there will be more software engineers being employed in the world — with LLMs as a tool.