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> Unfortunately the job market does not demand both types of programmer equally: Those who drive LLMs to deliver more/better/faster/cheaper are in far greater d
by aleph_minus_one 10mo ago
> Unfortunately the job market does not demand both types of programmer equally: Those who drive LLMs to deliver more/better/faster/cheaper are in far greater demand right now.
I doubt that the LLM drivers deliver something better; quite the opposite. But I guess managers will only realize this when it's too late: and of course they won't take any responsibility for this.
- jt2190 10mo ago> I doubt that the LLM drivers deliver something better… That is your definition of “better”. If we’re going to trade our expertise for coin, we must ask ourselves if the cost of “better” is worth it to the buyer. Can they see the difference? Do they care?
- aleph_minus_one 10mo ago> if the cost of “better” is worth it to the buyer. Can they see the difference? Do they care? This is exactly the phenomenon of markets for "lemons": > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons (for the HN readers: a related concept is "information asymmetry in markets"). George Akerlof (the author of this paper), Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz got a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information.
- ThrowawayR2 10mo agoHN: "Why should we craft our software well? Our employers don't care or reward us for it." Also HN: "Why does all commercial software seem to suck more and more as time goes on?"