Market forces will take care of it. These people won't get hired or last long if they do. Companies don't need programmers whose only skill is prompt "engineering".
While I agree with this in the aggregate and I think this problem is likely to take care of itself for many companies - I can’t help but be frustrated with it right now.
It is unbelievably grating to have colleagues that are plainly over-reliant on LLMs, especially if they’re less experienced. Hopefully the cultural norm around their use gets set quickly. I can’t handle too many more PRs where juniors plug my feedback in to an LLM and paste the response
A long time ago there was a serious effort toward building programs from UML in the Java sphere, with the ideals of explaining the system what needs to be done and have it spit out a solution, potentially from pre-made blocks.
That philosophy never died and will probably keep living on eternally, perhaps until it somedays becomes a realistic option, who knows ?
Many companies see it as the utopia, and won't have any strong rejection of programmers sharing that ideal.
People who studied computer science, even on their own, are going to do just fine as long as they don't turn off their brains. I am not losing any sleep over this.
It is unbelievably grating to have colleagues that are plainly over-reliant on LLMs, especially if they’re less experienced. Hopefully the cultural norm around their use gets set quickly. I can’t handle too many more PRs where juniors plug my feedback in to an LLM and paste the response