'LLMs Are Eroding My Career' Author Posts Follow-Up Defending the Thesis Against 125 HN Comments

Human in the Loop (bearblog) / Hacker News·medium signal

Published June 7 and hitting 78 points / 125 comments on HN, the engineer argues LLMs are an unprecedented shift that commoditizes software and other knowledge work, drawing an explicit parallel to how LLMs gutted copywriting (supply rises faster than demand). They reject comparisons to past disruptions like OOP ('a matrix multiplication machine that can output useful text for hours' with compounding gains) and predict finance, law, biology, and marketing will follow as field-specific 'harnesses' mature. The core claim: even 'AI-native engineers' eventually face commoditization if improvement continues.