Hey,
I‘m a Second Year at decent firm, in a transactional practice.
Even though LLMs have been around since I was a summer associate, it feels like now that it‘s just eating such a large chunk of my work, that it‘s sort of killing job satisfaction. Yes, I can get hours reviewing the output, but often the output is quite decent to the point that it‘s really compressing tasks that previously would have taken quite some time. And seemingly commoditizing my „skill.“ The rubber stamping makes the gig less enjoyable, I find.
I realize the work we do isn‘t always socially meaningful (an understatement) but at least historically the tasks were necessarily done by someone, and required above-average attention to detail, application of effort etc.
I realize there are skillsets at the senior level that AI cannot replicate (yet) but I am really struggling to see what I’ll be doing of value over the next few years. It just seems that drafting, diligence, summarization, are sort of superfluous skills. Is anyone struggling with job satisfaction because of this stuff?
Am I just not seeing the skills or tasks AI will not foreseeably be able to do in two years?