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 <blockquote>If my interpretation of the Retrieval quadrant is correct, it will become much more difficult to be an average, or even above average, writer. Only the best will flourish. Perhaps we will see a rise in neo-generalists.</blockquote>This is probably true of average or poor software engineers given that GPT-3 can produce pretty reasonable code snippets