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The goalposts haven't really moved though? The reality that a lot of people have thrown "engineer" in their title but just write code given a spec or tightly sc
by alfalfasprout 4y ago
The goalposts haven't really moved though? The reality that a lot of people have thrown "engineer" in their title but just write code given a spec or tightly scoped requirements or design has been true for a while now.
But for quite a few folks, the coding is the easy part. When building larger systems you're not even that often implementing things from scratch. The decision making, dealing with existing tech debt, tooling, etc. is the hard part. Ambiguity is the hard part and it's always been that way.
Don't get me wrong GPT-* is impressive. Heck, I pay for a subscription. But it won't really make a lot of folks at my company notably more productive.