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/
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/
@jrauber @hanshuebner both are viable Options and I am considering both currently as a fourty year old developer. I am in the middle of my career and I am highly unsure were to go from here.
Also a quote from a Junior Collegue today: I've asked claude to build a feature and half an hour later it was done like magic. Then he said, I don't know whats my purpose in my project anymore. To me that's facinating and concerning at the same time. I notice more interactions like this on a regular basis.
Hans Hübner
Johannes Rauber
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