I think the best analogy of what it will do to employment is to compare to Walmart checkout lines circa 2000 vs 2025. You used to go and there were 25 checkout lines each staffed by 2 people. Now you go and there are 25 self-checkout pods staffed by 1 person. However there are now 40 employees wandering around the store fulfilling curbside and delivery orders. I think LLMs will offer a similar effect. There are lots of jobs, like say the person who reviews your loan application, or analyzes marketing data that will now be replaced by 1 human overseeing the work of 20 bots. The deeper I delve into setting up my own LLMs for RAG use, the more I see its very real limitations. I don't mean that negative towards LLMs as the tech is amazing, I just don't think it can ever be left completely unsupervised. People keep trying to ascribe agency to it and act like its conscious, but its just a rube-gold berg pattern generator