I think you are going to see another wave of doctors and medical professionals becoming closet coders:
1970s-80s: "They don't provide a computer at work, but this BASIC software is amazing for all things relevant to my job...databases, scheduling, formulae...plus it's private to me, not in some mainframe."
So you had tons of doctors learning to code or hiring coders to set up their offices with this stuff. And it was functionally air-gapped.
(...Trend repeats in various ways over the years...)
Soon: "They don't provide anything like it at work, and even this free LLM software is amazing for all things relevant to my job...diagnosis, interventions, references based on specific context...plus it's private to me and my office when run locally, not in somebody's cloud."
And, prompting an LLM is de facto coding, moreso the more detailed and specialized the session.
This could skip some huge problems with the LLM commercial service model, and provide tons of additional specific contextual benefits depending on the configuration.
Plus, doctors already listen to patients throwing out red herrings left and right, so even unreliable information from the LLM will be available in a context where the provider knows how to rule things out anyway...
1970s-80s: "They don't provide a computer at work, but this BASIC software is amazing for all things relevant to my job...databases, scheduling, formulae...plus it's private to me, not in some mainframe."
So you had tons of doctors learning to code or hiring coders to set up their offices with this stuff. And it was functionally air-gapped.
(...Trend repeats in various ways over the years...)
Soon: "They don't provide anything like it at work, and even this free LLM software is amazing for all things relevant to my job...diagnosis, interventions, references based on specific context...plus it's private to me and my office when run locally, not in somebody's cloud."
And, prompting an LLM is de facto coding, moreso the more detailed and specialized the session.
This could skip some huge problems with the LLM commercial service model, and provide tons of additional specific contextual benefits depending on the configuration.
Plus, doctors already listen to patients throwing out red herrings left and right, so even unreliable information from the LLM will be available in a context where the provider knows how to rule things out anyway...