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> Here’s the question a lot of developers are sitting with: do we lose some of our cognitive abilities if we’re reduced to reviewers? If we’re not writing the c
by jraph 9mo ago
> Here’s the question a lot of developers are sitting with: do we lose some of our cognitive abilities if we’re reduced to reviewers? If we’re not writing the code, are we still thinking deeply about the problems? Or are we reduced to pattern-matching against LLM output, slowly atrophying the muscles we spent years building?
No, absolutely not. Please don't start to think that by not doing stuff on your own, you miss out on keeping yourself sharp and trained and on improving in this stuff.
If developers who have adopted LLMs for writing code start to think this, that might scare away some from using LLMs at all, and this weakens my evil plan to make a lot of money fixing their code with my intact coding abilities, especially when these LLM tools are going to get crazy expensive because at some point they will need to be sustainably funded, when I'll still be somewhat affordable in comparison. I'd rather get rich quick by doing the same thing I've been doing for years, don't take this from me please.
- devsda 9mo agoHaha. I can totally see a future where business hire outside consultants to fix in-house AI developed code and to train developers on AI pitfalls. May be the design will be outsourced to consultancies and then implementation using AI is left to in house talent. May be new recommendation and lists like OWASP top 10 and 12 factors will emerge for AI too.
- maipen 9mo ago> especially when these LLM tools are going to get crazy expensive because at some point they will need to be sustainably funded You say this with such certainty when progress is actually proving otherwise. LLMS are only going to get cheaper. There will always be expensive models, because they use the latest tech and infra, but that doesn't mean we need them for everything... But year after year we see free or local LLMs become more powerful.