I think HR is the first role that could truly be replaced by an LLM.

How about marketing? Or CEO?

Hey I’ve noticed gpt has gained some personality to boot!! Way more than HR, that’s still stuck at the reptile level

@Lensflare so marketing does require some imagination, and a CEO isn't going to replace themselves. But HR is a function mostly defined by following law, talking to people, etc. Most of them are incompetent, so an LLM wouldn't exactly be worse.

Actually, web designer for web applications, won't miss that person anymore. openwebui renders every change you ask live for you on screen and does exactly what is told. I can imagine that for public websites a designer is still preferred, but for normal web applications i rather work with the LLM than a designer. Granted, my bar is not so high when it comes to design.

I can imagine an LLM being used like “Ah, I’ve noticed you haven’t enrolled a health insurance plan for this year!Would you like me to make a suggestion based on your current age and health status? Let me know if I can provide some assistance!”

Had to edit to replace periods with exclamations lol

@TeachMeCode I don't know what your point is, that sounds exactly like my HR person.

@Lensflare Can we put COO in that group too? What a useless person that is... damn

@atheist imo unless you introduce strong fact checking (RAG or similar) taking in local laws (both, labor and finance) and regulations (company, region, ....), then you can't guarantee correctness of answers which is a problem when employees apporach HR to help them. it would also require to remove the sycophant personality from LLMs

+ the maintenance to keep it up to date with upcoming new laws and removal of whatever what no longer applies

@qwwerty OK, my employer is currently breaking health and safety regulations, GDPR regulations and disability protection regulations and I'm planning to sue them. I've already been through the grievance process once with regards to this, they acknowledged there was a problem. Nothing got better, they just tried to intimidate me into silence. Which also breaks some other laws.

What you're saying sounds like my current employer, I don't understand what your point is.

I'd laugh but they've literally ignored health and safety issues that could kill me.

Not our HR. They are likely the most important department in the company. Since they've been given full discretion in hiring the best people (no DEI, no quotas, affirmative action, etc), we have and retain the best folks.

You have no idea how boring it is around here. No drama, pissing contests, no alpha-male chest pounding. Folks who want to write some code, talk about <random movie/tv-show/sports>, and at 5 o'clock go home. Wash-rinse-repeat.

@PaperTrail I'm a bit pro diversity, as much as anything I'm sick of working at tech companies full of middle age white dudes. Speaking as a middle aged white dude. Our DEI policy is near nonexistent but we've got a pretty diverse group because we do medical research in 4 different colountries.