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As much as I would like my job to be exclusively about writing code, the reality is that the majority of it is: - talking to people to understand how to levera
by wrxd 10mo ago
As much as I would like my job to be exclusively about writing code, the reality is that the majority of it is:
- talking to people to understand how to leverage their platform and to get them to build what I need
- work in closed source codebases. I know where the traps and the foot guns are. Claude doesn’t
- telling people no, that’s a bad idea. Don’t do that. This is often more useful than an you’re absolutely right followed by the perfect solution to the wrong problem
In short, I can think and I can learn. LLMs can’t.
- Oras 10mo agoWell, with things like skills and proper memory, these things can become better. Remember 2 years ago when AI coding wasn’t even a thing? You’re right it wouldn’t replace everyone, but businesses will need less people to maintain.
- johnwheeler 10mo agoright, I think in the near term, the worry isn't about replacing people wholesale but just replacing most or more people and causing serious economic disruption. In the limit, you would have a CEO who commands the AI to do everything, but that seems less plausible
- kasey_junk 10mo agoWhat’s the CEO for in that case?
- johnwheeler 10mo agoExactly. You can keep pushing it up the chain to the Investor. Then Sam Altman I guess.
- SonOfKyuss 10mo ago> telling people no, that’s a bad idea. Don’t do that. This is often more useful than an you’re absolutely right followed by the perfect solution to the wrong problem This one is huge. I’ve personally witnessed many situations where a multi-million dollar mistake was avoided by a domain expert shutting down a bad idea. Good leadership recognizes this value. Bad leadership just looks at how much code you ship
- Oras 10mo agoIf some people are going to do whatever they want regardless, then it doesn’t matter if advise is coming from human expert or AI