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M. Qasim. Farooqi ⛏️
M. Qasim. Farooqi ⛏️

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From Letters to LLMs: Jobs, AGI, and the Fear We Don't Have to Carry

New essay on the question every engineer is getting asked:

Will AGI arrive — and will it wipe us out?

After using LLMs + agentic AI daily (debugging, tool calls, multi-step work):

  • AI won't take your job in the dramatic sense
  • Benchmarks ≠ human superiority
  • Agentic tools hallucinate — judgment stays human
  • AGI will come, but not as a god
  • Open source is the practical answer to closed-lab fear

"The real fear is of losing our own craftsmanship and the people we love to AI."

From Letters to LLMs: Jobs, AGI, and the Fear We Don’t Have to Carry

Technology moves faster than our nerves can follow. That is the quiet problem of this decade.

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