The Seven Voyages Of SteveOne of the things I loved about software development was that we were always trying to get better at it, and there was no ceiling in sight for that. Using LLMs to make code is the opposite of that - learning to use them is more akin to learning rituals than it is to intellectual development. And don’t give me that nonsense about it being like using a compiler to move up an abstraction level; it’s not, any more than becoming a manager is coding at another level of abstraction.
I lived through the era in the noughties when the only promotion available outside management was to become a “software architect”. This was supposedly another level of abstraction over development and these experienced developers would level up the whole process by being dedicated architects. And you know what happened if those architects didn’t still actively write code too? Their designs were absolute garbage.
The industry is convinced that the way forward is that everyone should be a manager / architect, and direct a gaggle of pattern matching machines that assemble a pastiche of previously written code. Because it’s faster to do that than to actually do the work yourself. I’m sure it is, but we’ve ceased to learn anything new, or even try anything new. It might seem new to you, but none of it is - not even accidentally. And even on a personal level you’ve learned nothing except summoning rituals
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