Hans HübnerMar 9

I'm a software professional and I have spent the last 40 years writing code almost daily. To me, the advent of LLM coding tools means that the job that I have been doing so far is gone. I am no longer going to write code for a living. Instead, my job as a software professional will be to guide LLMs to write the code for me.

I did not ask for this, and I have not decided whether I enjoy my new activity more than I enjoyed my previous duties. But is that relevant? In a certain sense, I am a 1/

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@hanshuebner Please don't give in to the propaganda and accept the framing that this job is "gone". The agentic tools are nowhere near as good as they say. The reality is that the industry is experiencing a major and traumatic (if somewhat rational) contraction after a wildly over-optimistic expansion towards the start of COVID, and "AI" is being blamed because it makes those products seem cool. The economic harm is real but it is not killer robots it's just a recession
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@[email protected] @[email protected] Good take
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@glyph I have not written a lot of code myself in the last year. The code that I had LLMs write was good enough, both in the commercial and non-commercial contexts that I used them. I'm judging off what I experience, and I'm not going to dream that my code writing skills are what's going to fill my fridge in the future.

Human code writing will be the exception, not the norm. There will be very few jobs that require the ancient skill. Better learn something new.