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I think you are correct that people say this, but its absurd that they are saying it in the first place. Coding/engineering/etc is all problem solving in a str
by cdolan 1y ago
I think you are correct that people say this, but its absurd that they are saying it in the first place.
Coding/engineering/etc is all problem solving in a strucutred manner.
That skill is not going anywhere
- dingnuts 1y agooh I agree but the last three years has felt like an endless chorus of people telling me SWE was going to be obsolete very soon so I had to push back against the idea that "nobody" thinks that. I wouldn't have to listen to people talk about it all the time if nobody thought it was true
- daveguy 1y ago(not GP) To be fair, just because someone says something doesn't mean they believe it. Most of those folks have to know they're being absurd. But I agree saying "nobody" thinks something is over the top. People on the internet can be quite looney tunes.
- mediaman 1y agoA lot of people believe that programming is the typing of odd sequences of characters into a computer. To them, it seems LLMs are also perfectly capable of typing odd sequences of characters. The idea that SWEs do actual structured problem solving is mostly native to industry insiders.
- daveguy 1y agoThank you for this. A very well stated explanation of a major reason the hype is soo off base from the people doing the work every day.