It's hard to get on the first rung of a skill ladder when the LLM is better than you.
When you're learning a skill, you climb up the ladder, pulling yourself up rung by rung.
It used to be that junior roles would get the tasks at the bottom of the ladder.
That got them on the ladder, where they could iteratively pull themselves up.
But now the LLMs mean that for what used to be the earliest rungs, the LLM can do a better job.
You might as well use the LLM to do it… but without understanding it, you won't improve your own skill.
But also your employer would rather just have the LLM do it… no need to bother with you as a human.
By having LLMs do it, we prevent the growth pipeline for skills for employees.
As the LLMs get better, the first rung of the ladder keeps going higher and higher in more and more domains.