A 1 in 15,787 Chance Blog Post
I wrote a post titled Congratulations, Robot. You’ve Been Promoted! in which OpenAI declared that their AI coders were no longer junior engineers but mid-level engineers.
The post triggered the largest unsubscription rate in this blog’s history. It was a 4-sigma event.
A Nassim Taleb black swan, this was something that should happen once every 700 years of a blog author’s career.
Clearly, the post struck a nerve.
In a job market 13% smaller for recent grads than recent years, a subtle fear persists that positive developments in AI accuracy & performance accelerate job losses. Stanford’s research found :
