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I think the idea of replacing devs with LLMs is missing the point of what a developer does. Yes, today, developers are people who know programming languages, t
by GuB-42 3y ago
I think the idea of replacing devs with LLMs is missing the point of what a developer does.
Yes, today, developers are people who know programming languages, that's something non-developers don't know, so teach an AI do code and you can spare a developer, right?
But no, what developers really do is tell the computer precisely what it should do, a programming language simply the best way we have found to do it. Using GUIs, natural languages, etc... may fell less obscure to the layman, but the problem doesn't go away, in fact, it is often made worse because of the fuzziness of natural languages. There is a reason developer have been using programming languages for so long despite countless attempts to find alternatives, they simply haven't been matched for the task of telling a computer what to do precisely. And if something better is found, then developers will use that, and besides some syntactic technicalities, the job will be essentially the same.