AI as a general concept probably will at some point. But LLMs have all but reached the end of the line and they’re not nearly smart enough.

Wrong, this is also exactly what people selling LLMs to people who can’t code would say.

I don’t know if you noticed but most of the people making decisions in the industry aren’t programmers, they’re MBAs.

I can see the statement in the same way word processing displaced secretaries.

There used to be two tiers in business. Those who wrote ideas/solutions and those who typed out those ideas into documents to be photocopied and faxed. Now the people who work on problems type their own words and email/slack/teams the information.

In the same way there are programmers who design and solve the problems, and then the coders who take those outlines and make it actually compile.

LLM will disrupt the programmers leaving the problem solvers.

There are still secretaries today. But there aren’t vast secretary pools in every business like 50 years ago.

I’m pretty sure I could write a bot right now that just regurgitates pop science bullshit and how it relates to Line Go Up business philosophy.

Edit: did it, thanks ChatJippity

def main():
    # Check if the correct number of arguments are provided
    if len(sys.argv) != 2:
        print("Usage: python script.py <PopScienceBS>")
        sys.exit(1)
    # Get the input from the command line
    PopScienceBS = sys.argv[1]
    # Assign the input variable to the output variable
    LineGoUp = PopScienceBS
    # Print the output
    print(f"Line Go Up if we do: {LineGoUp}")
if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Sounds like the no-ops of a decade ago and cloud will remove the need for infrastructure engineers. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂😂🤣

Trouble is, you’re basing all that on now, not a year from now, or 6 months from now. It’s too easy to look at it’s weaknesses today and extrapolate. I think people need to get real about coding and AI. Coding is language and rules. Machines can learn that enormously faster and more accurately than humans. The ones who survive will be those who can wield it as a tool for creativity. But if you think it won’t be capable of all the things it’s currently weak at you’re just kidding yourself unfortunately. It’ll be like anything else - a tool for an operator. Middlemen will be wiped out of the process, of course, but those with money remain those without time or expertise, and there will always be a place for people willing to step in at that point. But they won’t be coding. They’ll be designing and solving problems.

My last employer had many internal tools that were fine.

They had only a moderate amount of oversight.

I had to find a new job, I’m actually thinking of walking away from software development now that there are so few jobs :(

It sucks but there’s no sense pretending this won’t have a large impact on the job landscape.

The LLMs they train on their code will only be accessible internally. They won’t leak their own intellectual property.

I think that’s the point? They’re saying that those coders will turn into prompt engineers. They didn’t say they wouldn’t have a job, just that they wouldn’t be “coding”.

Which I don’t believe for a minute. I could see it eventually, but it’s not “2 years” away by any stretch of the imagination.

I will put down a solid grand that this exact same article will be printed by the exact same website 24 months from now and it will receive the exact same reception.

Well if it works, means that job wasn’t that important, and the people doing that job should improve themselves to stay relevant.

Edit: wow what a bunch of hypersensitive babies. I swear, y’all just allergic to learning or something. I just said people need to improve themselves to stay relevant, and people freak out and send me death threats. What a joke.