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What kind of projects are people working on, where understanding what features the management wants is the only difficult part and the rest can just be "typed o
by Antibabelic 5mo ago
What kind of projects are people working on, where understanding what features the management wants is the only difficult part and the rest can just be "typed out" (or, today, offloaded to an LLM)? If that's what you do, then I'm not surprised so many people on HN think LLMs can replace them.
- odie5533 5mo agoI've found the more senior you get, the code seems more fungible, and the process seems more important and difficult.
- jayd16 5mo agoIsn't that just ascribing difficulty to the parts of the process you're closer to?
- hnthrow0287345 5mo agoThis is like 80% of CRUD apps. Sometimes they have a few interesting problems but not like the upper 20%. Most of them are hot garbage in terms of code quality because of the offshoring and layoff cycles.
- IanCal 5mo agoAlso even the more complex things will have a lot of simpler code in them.
- vehemenz 5mo agoUno reverse. What kind of limited project experience would lead anyone to think that there isn't an enormous continuum between code difficulty and organizational problems in the space of software development?
- deepsquirrelnet 5mo agoAny discussion related to this topic always seems to assume everyone uses code the same way and for the same function, and then forces the rest of the world through that lens. So here we walk around the circle one more time again, voicing our anxieties, talking past each other, waiting for the next opportunity for commentary to come in half an hour.