Matthew GarrettMar 7

My job as a senior developer with a team of juniors is to figure out what to write, sketch a PoC as guidance, and then delegate the actual implementation to them. I'm going to look at that, explain misunderstandings or poor style choices, and guide them into implementing something that meets our standards.

I don't think LLMs can do my job yet. But I think we're getting shockingly close to them being able to do the other part. And I'm worried how we're going to get more senior developers.

Show threadviqMar 7
@mjg59
On one hand, very much yes.
On the other, I just read an article about where we currently stand with climate change, and I don't think "where will senior programmers come from" is going to be that much of an issue.
Show threadNicolás AlvarezMar 7
@viq @mjg59 because we'll go extinct before that becomes a problem?
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@nicolas17
Or if not that, wars for resources and otherwise trying to keep enough of farming going will require too many hands directly applied to problems for them to be spending time on keyboards.
@mjg59
Mar 7 at 1:27amWeb