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 threadJason Haar 
@mjg59 Musk tweeted that this is the Year of the Singularity, so I don't think you have to worry about the senior developers part either... 🤓
Mar 7 at 1:30amWeb
Show threadJason Haar Mar 7
@mjg59 actually, if AI gets that good, why will the public ever need to give money to any commercial software company? You'd just ask your AI to build you a solution and throw it away after using it. In effect, the software industry is racing towards doing itself out of business.
Show threadJess👾Mar 7
@jhaar @mjg59 Then you're just paying the AI company for your bespoke program than a software company. You don't really think they're going to let you vibe code a whole app for cheaper than buying an app with the same functionality, right?
Show threadJason Haar Mar 7
@JessTheUnstill @mjg59 ...but AI is going to get sooooo good that then I'll slap the whole thing on my watch as a local model and it will auto-evolve itself without external help. 😜