[taylorius]

Tech people like it because it isn't good enough to completely replace them yet. The sophisticated, coherent architecture of a well designed system is (for now) still beyond the LLMs, so for tech people, it's still just a wonderful tool. But give it another year, and the worm will turn.

[dingnuts]

lumberjacks didn't go away when chainsaws were invented; demand for wood rose to meet the falling cost of wood and lumberjacks kept cutting down trees. don't see why it won't be any different for programmers.

[spwa4]

In the US, there were entire cities with essentially just lumberjacks. In other words, there used to be a LOT more lumberjacks than there are today, and they were a lot better paid.

Now there are a LOT of software engineers.

[taylorius]

But the chainsaws were never developed to the point that the head of wood supplies could ask them to go and chop some trees down by themselves.

[kristianp]

What's the equivalent of deforestation in that analogy?