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My cynical take is this: if you are worried about LLM taking programming jobs away, why do you think your alternatives are safe? Not gonna lie, as an experienc
by angarg12 4y ago
My cynical take is this: if you are worried about LLM taking programming jobs away, why do you think your alternatives are safe?
Not gonna lie, as an experienced engineer I'm also worried and anxious about ChatGPT (combined with the economy, tech layoffs, inflation...). But what else can I do? If my job disappears due to LLMs, I can't think of anything else I could do to pay the bills that wouldn't also be at risk.
So being pragmatic the best thing to do is to continue doing the best job I can. If that involves using LLMs to increase my productivity, so be it.
- pllbnk 4y agoI think that the next few years will be very interesting where we will see many new companies being created by prompters and many "oh crap" moments when they will be about to hit or start hitting production and just not working, especially if the tests are carried away by the same prompters. Then the hiring pace for programmers will pick up again and we might see a new 2020-2021 boom.
- ShouldIPivot 4y agoWhat does your day-to-day work involve? I don't really know what day to day engineering looks like, I just assumed engineering would be more difficult to replace.
- throwawaymar22 4y agoIf programming can be replaced, then everything can be modelled on a computer will be as well.