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No one rational ever said software engineers were going to be replaced in 6 months. Some people said AI will automate 90% of coding in 6 months and they were no
by nopinsight 4mo ago
No one rational ever said software engineers were going to be replaced in 6 months. Some people said AI will automate 90% of coding in 6 months and they were not far off (and accurate in some contexts, e.g. startups).
- otabdeveloper4 4mo agoCoding has been automated since the very beginning of coding. The first two programming languages (Fortran and Cobol) were supposed to make coding obsolete because non-coders will now just make software with natural language prompts. LLMs are a dangerous tool for coding because they are infinite technical debt generators. Ideally only experienced senior developers should be allowed to use them.
- Schlagbohrer 4mo agoIt's amusing to think that context window capability needs to outpace technical debt pileup with LLM development and usage