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I disagree. There is a lot of boilerplate to write and mundane things to check, which AI can speed up a lot. I'm not talking about 'software engineering' here,

by tpxl 27d ago

I disagree. There is a lot of boilerplate to write and mundane things to check, which AI can speed up a lot. I'm not talking about 'software engineering' here, but about 'programming', which consists of a lot of write DTO->write rest interface->write interface->write simple select query->map response. The good taste here comes from the architectural design and the UI design. The amount of 'software engineers' who couldn't design a table to be readable or a flow to be intuitive is off the charts. AI neither helps nor harms here, it just makes implementing good and bad decisions faster.

yhcj 26d ago
also people have no clue how to know what is good or bad. It's like if I asked an LLM to produce a contract for a a new hire (my friend the one I mentioned, did that BTW LOL) Yeah, okay, it might be good, probably very good, in fact might be GREAT. But I just have no clue
sillyfluke 26d ago
Since the discussion was related to the job security of a programmer with good taste, I'm trying to read your comment from that perspective. If I am understanding you correctly, you are claiming that an AI will not design a table to be readable unless a programmer with good taste is prompting it. Did I understand you correctly? If so, then yes we are going to arrive at different conclusions, because my claim is that the table made by the programmer with no taste will be acceptable to the client, hence good taste won't save the other programmer because good taste will require more guiding and interference by the programmer. And then the client will just go with the no taste implementation. If the programmer with good taste truly does not lose any time implementing their solution when compared to the other programmer, as you claim, then yes the client will go with good taste since all else are equal. I just find those assumptions hard to believe at this stage.

by tpxl 27d ago

yhcj 26d ago

also people have no clue how to know what is good or bad. It's like if I asked an LLM to produce a contract for a a new hire (my friend the one I mentioned, did that BTW LOL) Yeah, okay, it might be good, probably very good, in fact might be GREAT. But I just have no clue

sillyfluke 26d ago

Since the discussion was related to the job security of a programmer with good taste, I'm trying to read your comment from that perspective. If I am understanding you correctly, you are claiming that an AI will not design a table to be readable unless a programmer with good taste is prompting it. Did I understand you correctly? If so, then yes we are going to arrive at different conclusions, because my claim is that the table made by the programmer with no taste will be acceptable to the client, hence good taste won't save the other programmer because good taste will require more guiding and interference by the programmer. And then the client will just go with the no taste implementation. If the programmer with good taste truly does not lose any time implementing their solution when compared to the other programmer, as you claim, then yes the client will go with good taste since all else are equal. I just find those assumptions hard to believe at this stage.