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Not (currently) worried. Lots of comments here about intellisense being a similar step up and I’ve had it disabled for years (I find it more a distraction than
by Fizzadar 2y ago
Not (currently) worried. Lots of comments here about intellisense being a similar step up and I’ve had it disabled for years (I find it more a distraction than use). So far LLMs feel like a more capable - but more error prone - intellisense. Unless it’s stamping out boiler plate or very menial tasks I have yet to find a use for LLMs that doesn’t take up more time fixing it than just writing it in the first place.
Who knows though in 10 years time I imagine things will be radically different and I intend to periodically use the latest AI assistance so I keep up, even if it’s a world I don’t necessarily want. Part of why I love to code is the craft and AI generated code loses that for me.
I do, however, feel really lucky to be at the senior end of things now. Because I think junior roles are seriously at risk. Lots of the corrections needed for LLMs seem to be the same kind of errors new grads make.
The problem is - what happens when all us seniors are dead/retired and there’s no juniors because they got wiped out by AI.