Mastodawn

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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Hans Hübner Mar 9

member of the working class and have always been at the mercy of capital. So now, capital has changed the rules in which I am operating and my new life is fundamentally different. I do not feel that I get to choose. Gone are the days that made me feel like belonging to an elite class of workers that capital depended on.

I'm at the end of my career, and it feels strange to experience that the field I've been operating in is taken over by machines. I can't imagine how this feels for the 2/

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Hans Hübner Mar 9

thousands of people who had planned a career in this industry that now no longer seems viable. 3/3

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grepe

@hanshuebner I'm in similar situation and I believe it is a privilege to know how the code should look like and to be able to do the guiding. I feel sad for the coming generation of professionals (both coders and the people who just think they can now ask these tools to create code alike) which will end up doing some pretty dumb stuff only to rediscover many of the good practices that generations before them painstakingly developed...