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Agreed.
Even if LLMs could write great code with no human oversight, the world would not change over night. Human creativity is necessary to figure out what stuff to produce that will yield incremental benefits to what already exists.
The humans who possess such capability stand to win long-term; said humans tend to be those from the humanities and liberal arts.
At present its only SWE's that are benefitting from a productivity stand point. I know a lot of people in finance (from accounting to portfolio management) and they scoff at the outputs of LLMs in their day to day jobs.
But the bizarre thing is, even though the productivity of SWE's is increasing I dont believe there will be much happening in regards to lay offs due to the fact that there isn't complete trust in LLMs; I dont see this changing either. In which case the LLM producers will need to figure out a way to increase the value of LLMs and get users to pay more.
Why do you sound surprised by this?
"there is a gulf between the reality of what mathematicians actually do and the benchmarks that the frontier labs tout."
A lot of peoples wealth is on the line, I wish people opened their eyes rather than believing benchmarks blindly.