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My senior SWE job at FAANG has essentially turned into prompting Opus 4.5. There is almost no reason to delegate the work, especially low level grunt work. Pe
by llmslave 10mo ago
My senior SWE job at FAANG has essentially turned into prompting Opus 4.5.
There is almost no reason to delegate the work, especially low level grunt work.
People disputing this are either in denial, or lacking the skill set to leverage AI.
One or two more Opus releases from anthropic and this field is cooked
- drivebyhooting 10mo agoWhat kind of work do you do that is simple enough that can be accomplished solely through prompting?
- ivape 10mo agoThe golden handcuff type where you update documentation with new UI elements.
- llmslave 10mo ago: )
- llmslave 10mo agodistributed systems, log diving, deployments, etc
- gervwyk 10mo agoIt all depends on how you prompt. and the prompt system you’ve setup.. when done well, you just “steer” the code /system. Quite amazing to see it come together. But there are multiple layers to this.
- hactually 10mo agoany sort of web tech based development. Frontend, backend, animations, design, infra, distributed systems engineering, networking.
- Capricorn2481 10mo agoIt's a troll account called llmslave made a couple months ago. Odds are low it's even a human.
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- hu3 10mo agoWhat kind of work do you do that CANT BE divided enough into tasks that can be accomplished mostly through prompting?
- bojan 10mo agoIt seems you've registered this account a couple of months ago only to basically repeat this opinion over and over (sprinkled with some anti-science opinions on top). Really weird.
- llmslave 10mo agothe world has changed, have you caught up?
- petersellers 10mo agousername checks out
- trhway 10mo agogreat engineering effort was spent to make software at FAANG built on clear service oriented modular architectures, and thus easy to develop for. Add to that good organization of process where engineers spend most of their time doing actual dev work. Enterprise software is different beast - large fragile [quasi]monoliths, good luck for [current] AI to make a meaningful fixes and/or feature development in it. And even if AI manages to speed up actual development multiple times, the impact would be still small as actual development takes relatively small share of overall work in enterprise software. Of course it will come here too, just somewhat later than at places like FAANG.
- harisec 10mo agoUnfortunatelly, i have the same experience.
- extrabajs 10mo ago> lacking the skill set to leverage AI It possible that your job is simply not that difficult to begin with?
- llmslave 10mo agoyes, but so are most jobs like mine
- wanderlust123 10mo agoWhat job is so difficult that LLMs cant allow an experienced user an order of magnitude gain in efficiency?
- icedchai 10mo agoThe problem is many users are not experienced. And the more they rely on AI to do their work, the less likely they are to ever become experienced. An inexperienced junior engineer delegating all their work to an LLM is an absolute recipe for disaster, both for the coworkers and product. Code reviews take at least 3x as long. They cannot justify their decisions because the decisions aren't theirs. I've seen it first hand.
- wanderlust123 10mo agoI agree totally; most people are no experienced, and there is a weird situation where the productivity gains are bifurcated. I have also seen a lot of developers unable to steer the LLM as they can’t pick up on issues they would otherwise have learned through experience. Interesting to see what will happen but probably gonna be a shit show for younger devs.
- wilsonnb3 10mo agoAn order of magnitude, really? An experienced user with an LLM is going to accomplish in 2026 what would have otherwise taken until 2036?
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- samdoesnothing 10mo agoThe best part about your account is the people who don't understand the satire and unironically agree with you :D