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What adaptation is actually necessary for competent software developers? If it is as easy as writing what you want the llm to do, I'm pretty sure any competent
by IncreasePosts 2y ago
What adaptation is actually necessary for competent software developers? If it is as easy as writing what you want the llm to do, I'm pretty sure any competent software developer can learn that within a few days. And the necessity of precise prompting techniques will quickly diminish over time.
- jckahn 2y agoWe'll need to adapt to lower salaries
- f1shy 2y agoMaybe same salary, more output required, like it’s been when new technology allows for more/better work to be done in the same time.
- Etheryte 2y agoI'm not convinced this is going to happen to competent engineers. I've done my fair share of consulting gigs and some of the best money was in fixing spaghetti that was so long gone that even the original team behind it struggled to move the needle. My gut feel is that with LLMs, this kind of work is going to be even more valuable than before.
- ben_w 2y agoToday, yes absolutely. I won't bet on how quickly or slowly that will change, in part because I want it to be a slow change so I don't have to worry about learning a replacement trade.
- wil421 2y agoWasn’t there a prompt engineer salary posted on HN a while back for like $350k?
- mixmastamyk 2y agoAgreed, however devs are not allowed to learn things until after an interview. Miss a question during and don’t get hired, fixed-mindset style.
- ben_w 2y agoMy best guess is that we need to become project managers, code reviewers, test writers — but that's based on the assumption of relatively slow performance improvements in coding specifically, that aren't also matched with improvements in all those other tasks. We may very well go the way of the professions of "computer", burlak, lamplighter, postilion, samurai, seneschal and reeve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_obsolete_occupations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_obsolete_occupations