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by dragonwriter 927 days ago
> Once the context window becomes large enough to swallow up the codebase of a small-mid sized company, what do all those IT workers that perform below the 50th percentile in coding tests even do?

There's a whole lot of work in tech (even specifically work "done by software developers") that isn't "banging out code to already completed specs".
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TillE 927 days ago
Yeah I think a lot of experienced developers are so immersed in software development that they forget how complex the process is, and how much knowledge they have to even know how to ask the right questions.

I mean, I thought that website frontend development would have long since been swallowed up by off-the-shelf WYSIWYG tools, that's how it seemed to be going in the late 90s. But the opposite has happened, there have never been more developers working on weird custom stuff.

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xdennis 925 days ago
You say that like it's not something that can also be automated.
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