Oh, the irony.
Mid engineers will disappear, but people who know what they are doing - in a few years will be kidnapped to cleanup LLM generated mess.
It‘s just some kind of ironic art. Clever!
A LLM is basically a digital parrot. It has no intuition for what makes solutions good or bad, but it will happily parrot things that seem relevant, even when faced with evidence that they are not. It is enough to pass a number of undergraduate programming exams (especially since graders often give partial credit), but it is not enough to solve real world problems.
If the future of the profession is endless meetings about ideas while AI does the work for me, then that's a crappy future and, honestly, there are people who are loads better at ideas than me.
And now we’re rapidly adjusting our roadmap and a bunch of people on the business side of the company have been reaching out to find out more about my prototype. The executive even called me on Saturday because he was so excited that he’d been doing research and wanted more details.
I had one guy in sales today tell me that this was the most exciting thing he’s seen in the 3+ years he’s been with the company.
Developers have ideas and skills. Everyone has ideas. Developers are the ones who can execute on those ideas.
Even prompts that are good to produce the individual functions needed that make up the whole isn't really there. You still need to personalize or ask for further tuning of the code.
Which takes a programmer.
But now you dont have a programmer and language mess. You now have AI mess and language mess.
Every step it’s right there making me faster. It’s like horse drawn cart straight to a rocket ship. Invigorating, stimulating. I’m averaging 4 hours sleep because I just love creating with this tool.
Have you looked at the ideas people had?
These are all good conversations to have. We don't know where all this is going, but things are going to change.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Night_Shift_(film)
The drop line is the funniest though:
"Wait a second... hold the phone! Hold the phone! [speaking into tape recorder] Idea to eliminate garbage. Edible paper. You eat it, it's gone! You eat it, it's outta there! No more garbage!"
What'll they think of next? Just wait till "vibe ideas" put the idea men out of work 8-/
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