[marssaxman]

I am not worried about it. Software development is the practice of automating away repetitive grunt-work, in every industry possible, especially our own; we have always been engineering our own jobs out of existence, but decade after decade, there continues to be ever more work for us to do.

What has surprised me about the near-apocalyptic enthusiasm for LLMs among some software engineers is that there appear to be a great many people who joined the industry expecting to do repetitive grunt-work, as a matter of course, apparently believing that typing out code is the point of it all and not just a means of expression. I can understand why they might be worried about the future, but perhaps they can relieve their anxiety by developing a deeper understanding of the art.