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It is a wonderful irony that AI makes competence all the more important. It’s almost like all the thought leading that proclaimed the death of software eng was
by mattgreenrocks 2y ago
It is a wonderful irony that AI makes competence all the more important.
It’s almost like all the thought leading that proclaimed the death of software eng was nothing but self-promotional noise. Huh, go figure.
- TrueDuality 2y agoDon't count it out yet as being problematic for software engineering, bu not in the way you probably intend with your comment. Where I see software companies using it most is as a replacement for interns and junior devs. That replacement means we're not training up the next generation to be the senior or expert engineers with real world experience. The industry will feel that badly at some point unless it gets turned around.
- kensey 2y agoIt’s also already becoming an issue for open-source projects that are being flooded with low-quality (= anything from “correct but pointless” to “actually introduces functional issues that weren’t there before”) LLM-generated PRs and even security reports —- for examples see Daniel Stenberg’s recent writing on this.
- mattgreenrocks 2y agoAgree. I think we are already seeing a hollowing out effect on tech hiring at the lower end. They’ve always been squeezed a bit, but it seems much worse now.
- bentt 2y agoI agree with this irony. That said, combining multiple ais and multiple programs together may mitigate this.