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by dingnuts 395 days ago
> I don’t think anyone expects software engineers will disappear

holy gaslighting Christ have some links, lots of people think that

https://www.reddit.com/r/ITCareerQuestions/comments/126v3pm/...

https://medium.com/technology-hits/the-death-of-coding-why-c...

https://medium.com/@TheRobertKiyosaki/are-programmers-obsole...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hessiejones/2024/09/21/the-auto...

and on and on, endless thinkpieces about this. Certainly SOMEONE, someone with a lot of money, thinks software engineers are imminently replaceable.

> until the singularity curve starts looking funny.

well there's absolutely no evidence whatsoever that we've made any progress to bringing about Kurzweil's God so I think regardless of what Sam Altman wants you to believe about "general AI" or those thinkpieces, experts are probably okay.
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cdolan 395 days ago
I think you are correct that people say this, but its absurd that they are saying it in the first place.

Coding/engineering/etc is all problem solving in a strucutred manner.

That skill is not going anywhere

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dingnuts 395 days ago
oh I agree but the last three years has felt like an endless chorus of people telling me SWE was going to be obsolete very soon so I had to push back against the idea that "nobody" thinks that.

I wouldn't have to listen to people talk about it all the time if nobody thought it was true

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daveguy 395 days ago
(not GP) To be fair, just because someone says something doesn't mean they believe it. Most of those folks have to know they're being absurd. But I agree saying "nobody" thinks something is over the top. People on the internet can be quite looney tunes.
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mediaman 394 days ago
A lot of people believe that programming is the typing of odd sequences of characters into a computer.

To them, it seems LLMs are also perfectly capable of typing odd sequences of characters.

The idea that SWEs do actual structured problem solving is mostly native to industry insiders.

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daveguy 394 days ago
Thank you for this. A very well stated explanation of a major reason the hype is soo off base from the people doing the work every day.
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