[ij09j901023123]

This is already happening at my workplace. Thousands of people just got cut off due to a LLM automating 90% of all my coworker's projects (mainly front end dev and basic backend api management). I predict that in the next 5 years, most software engineers will be worse off than minimum wage fast food workers. Coding is the new form of reading, and an AI will already have that knowledge.

[Toutouxc]

I find that hard to believe. Thousands of people? 90 %? I wish I could get so much help from a LLM. I’m a heavy GPT-4 and Copilot user, it explains new stuff to me, spits out configs and command line arguments, sometimes code snippets, but it utterly fails at any actual engineering tasks. Like, I work on document automation, most of my job is about evaluating changes to documents, efficiently resolving the side effects, transforming from the internal format to HTML, stuff like that. Copilot, even with its IDE integration, is rarely super helpful, it often just doesn’t understand what I’m trying to do, and it doesn’t help with architecture at all. There’s not enough “thinking” going on yet.