One of the best articles I’ve read on this topic of AI replacement.

Looking at it from an “Art of War” perspective, the message is:

1. Know yourself - your skills and abilities.
2. Know your enemy - understand AI, its strengths, weaknesses and limitations.
3. Know the terrain - look at where the world is going and what it needs and how you can take advantage of opportunity.

If you do that, then as Sun Tzu says: “Your victory will not be at risk.”.

In the long run, when almost every engineer has been replaced by LLMs, all companies will still have at least one engineer around to babysit the LLMs and to launder their promises and plans into human-legible commitments. Perhaps that engineer will eventually be replaced, if the LLMs are good enough. But they’ll be the last to go.

This is scary!

Haha don’t know how I missed that part. But that’s the main theme of the article: be that last guy!