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by stego-tech 456 days ago
> LLMs are good at translating clear specifications into common programming languages. That is what a programmer, by the BLS’ definition, does.

IT guy here. Can confirm.

Not even a decade ago, stitching together disparate systems would have entailed identifying and designing the thing we wanted to accomplish, establishing requirements, and relying on an internal coder/programmer to get it done. Today, with Powershell, Python, YAML, REST APIs, webhooks, declarative infrastructure, etc, programmers were already infrequently utilized if they existed within an organization at all; with LLMs, they’re just not needed, provided your Admins/Engies are competent enough not to test in production and can identify when they’re being lied to by a chatbot.