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LLM-generated code is digital asbestos, and someday the companies lucky enough to survive the lost generation of expertise will be throwing bags of money at actual developers to come out of retirement and rip it all out.
No, computers won’t replace humans to write code for themselves. Please stop with this nonsense. What we will see though is tremendous losses in productivity as deskilled programmers will get less and less education and practice—and take longer and longer to make broken AI-generated code work. Meanwhile, AI models will regress from eating their own generated shit when being trained on. Eventually AI companies will finally run out of investors to scam—and when they disappear or get so expensive they become unaffordable, “prompt engineers” will be asked to not use AI anymore. What’s gonna happen then? We’re losing a whole generation of programmers to this while thought leaders in our field are talking about “inevitability” and are jerking off to sci-fi-nostalgia-fueled fantasies of AGI.
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