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Amazing, a company with a vested interest in our AI future of software development is bullish on the use of AI in software development. > Many of those graph n

Amazing, a company with a vested interest in our AI future of software development is bullish on the use of AI in software development. > Many of those graph nodes are leaf-node tasks, like “write an auth library” or “modernize these unit tests”. They tend to be fairly self-contained. We often give these leaf node tasks to junior developers because the scope is small. You know, the companies that hand "write an auth library" to their junior developers will, I'm sure, do just fine by having an LLM do it for them. No worse than their normal output, absolutely. I'm sure a future where this is a good idea is coming, but I've seen nothing to persuade me that this is where we are now. IMO they're glorified intellisense - useful, but if you trust them blindly they'll take you where you deserve to go. Does anyone have any hard data (not anecdotes/opinions) to suggest I'm wrong on this?

n_ary 2y ago
> IMO they're glorified intellisense To me, LLMs are actually two-step shortcut to previously 1) query google 2) select most voted/accepted answer on StackOverflow 3) copy+paste example code in IDE 4) update some chars to match your need 5) run some tests to see if it suits your need Saves plenty of time, but scary when someone running that shortcut may be careless or have lack of understanding. (Edit: Fix Formatting)
loliver666 2y ago
You can safely ignore any blog post with 'The death of...' in it's title. As you say, companies telling us their products with dominate the future is nothing new. The next big job killer is always 5 years away, apparently.
- ben_w 2y ago
  > The next big job killer is always 5 years away, apparently It really is, and really always has been. At least, when it comes to software. What's always been hard, is knowing which of the many predictions about the real job killer will be correct, so that you can train for it. In 2009, I was expecting that by 2019 the world would have widespread availability of self driving cars without steering wheels, and not just some geofenced examples and a promise of more "real soon now honest" as we're still at in 2024. In 2019, I wasn't expecting LLMs to be even remotely as good as they turned out to be by 2022, let alone 2024.

n_ary 2y ago

> IMO they're glorified intellisense To me, LLMs are actually two-step shortcut to previously 1) query google 2) select most voted/accepted answer on StackOverflow 3) copy+paste example code in IDE 4) update some chars to match your need 5) run some tests to see if it suits your need Saves plenty of time, but scary when someone running that shortcut may be careless or have lack of understanding. (Edit: Fix Formatting)

loliver666 2y ago

You can safely ignore any blog post with 'The death of...' in it's title. As you say, companies telling us their products with dominate the future is nothing new. The next big job killer is always 5 years away, apparently.

ben_w 2y ago
> The next big job killer is always 5 years away, apparently It really is, and really always has been. At least, when it comes to software. What's always been hard, is knowing which of the many predictions about the real job killer will be correct, so that you can train for it. In 2009, I was expecting that by 2019 the world would have widespread availability of self driving cars without steering wheels, and not just some geofenced examples and a promise of more "real soon now honest" as we're still at in 2024. In 2019, I wasn't expecting LLMs to be even remotely as good as they turned out to be by 2022, let alone 2024.