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> my current thinking on that is that an experienced software engineer will be able to work faster with and get much higher quality results from working with LL
by throwaway290 2y ago
> my current thinking on that is that an experienced software engineer will be able to work faster with and get much higher quality results from working with LLMS
> than someone without any software experience
- So you are betting against ML becoming good enough soon enough. I wouldn't be so sure considering the large amount of money and computing energy being thrown into it and small amount of resistance from programmers.
- Actually someone doesn't have to be zero experience. But if someone is mostly an llm whisperer to save boss some yacht time, instead of engineer, someone is paid according minimal wage.
- simonw 2y agoNo matter how good ML gets I would still expect a subject matter expert working with that ML to produce better results than an amateur working with that same ML. When that’s not true any more we will have built AGI/ASI. Then we are into science fiction Star Trek utopia / Matrix dystopia world and all bets are off.
- throwaway290 2y ago> would still expect a subject matter expert working with that ML to produce better results than an amateur working with that same ML. Subject matter expert yes. Subject matter is not programming though, it's whatever the thing being built is about. (So if talking about non-tech companies that never considered hiring programmers before I think they still won't.)