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Five years from now, AI will still need humans who understand what it cannot: why a system was built a certain way, what trade-offs were made, where the edge cases live that no training data covers.
Unless, perhaps, AI five years from now understands that too.
All of this current change has happened over fewer years than that. Hard to predict when it will slow back down again.
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