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Lars Wirzenius Mar 18

I first learned how to program in 1984 at 14. The tech press said I'd be obsolete by 25, due to age.

About 1990 tech press said the Japanese were building fifth generation computers to make me obsolete.

In 2000, the dot com bubble bursting was said to make me obsolete.

There's been neural networks, no-code, and more, since then, to make me obsolete.

Now it's LLMs.

Excuse me while I sit here and don't panic.

#rant

EDIT: This blew up. Muting the thread for some peace and quiet.

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Christopher Duffley - KC1WXP

@liw We shouldn't believe ourselves to be obsolete. It's time that we train the LLM's and keep on doing so to make them better. But nothing, and I mean nothing, will ever replace human reviews of that code, just because of accuracy etc. AI is only as good as the people who make it, and I'm not talking about just the engineers, but also the data that it uses and what the engineers decide to use for the data to train with.