Sergio Visinoni

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The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI - Book Cover

We keep hearing that AI will soon replace software engineers, but we're forgetting that it can already replace existing jobs... and one in particular.

The average Founder CEO.

Before you walk away in disbelief, look at what LLMs are already capable of doing today:

↳ They use eloquence as a surrogate for knowledge, and most people, including seasoned investors, fall for it.

↳ They regurgitate material they read somewhere online without really understanding its meaning.

↳ They fabricate numbers that have no ground in reality, but sound aligned with the overall narrative they're trying to sell you.

↳ They are heavily influenced by the last conversations they had.

↳ They contradict themselves, pretending they aren't.

↳ They politely apologize for their mistakes, but don't take any real steps to fix the underlying problem that caused them in the first place.

↳ They tend to forget what they told you last week, or even one hour ago, and do it in a way that makes you doubt your own recall of events.

↳ They are victims of the Dunning–Kruger effect, and they believe they know a lot more about the job of people interacting with them than they actually do.

↳ They can make pretty slides in high volumes.

↳ They're very good at consuming resources, but not as good at turning a profit.

The list could go on, but I guess by now you get the point.

So, dear Founder/CEO friends,

It might be time to stop obsessing about replacing all your software engineers with statistical parrots and start worrying about your own job security.

Not all of you, of course, just the mediocre ones among the pack.

Good and exceptional people will still be fine, whether or not robots try to take over their jobs.

There is some meta-text that goes along with this post that the attentive reader should already guess.
For the rest, I might be adding a comment with further details later.

In the meantime, 🍿