AGI Prepping

The massive growth of LLMs has been shocking to witness, especially considering my first experience with ChatGPT. A coworker gained beta access, and I used it to generate poems in the voices of various celebrities. It repeated words excessively and had a low word limit on its output. At the time, I saw it as nothing more than a cool toy. I would have never predicted how powerful these models would become.

There was certainly skepticism in online communities like Hacker News and Reddit, where many doubted the long-term viability of LLMs. However, using these models for daily tasks and interacting with them at Google has left me with little doubt—they are here to stay. I find it highly unlikely that they will have no impact, or even a net positive effect, on the software engineering job market.

There is a lot of angst among software engineers, even within Google, about the trajectory of LLMs and how to plan for an uncertain future.…