[danielbln]

> I want to be a tinkerer, not a manager of tinkerers.

We all want many things, doesn't mean someone will pay you for it. You want to tinker? Great, awesome, more power to you, tinker on personal projects to your heart's content. However, if someone pays you to solve a problem, then it is our job to find the best, most efficient way to cleanly do it. Can LLMs do this on their own most of the time? I think not, not right now at least. The combination of skilled human and LLM? Most likely, yes.

[dspillett]

If it gets to the point where I can't compete in the role with those using LLMs, I'll move on. I'm not happy with remote teams essentially being the only way of working these days (if you aren't working alone) anyway, and various other directions the industry has moved in (the shit-show that is client-side stack for instance!).

Maybe I'll retrain for lab work, I know a few people in the area, yeah I'd need a pay cut, but… Heck, I've got the mortgage paid, so I could take quite a cut and not be destitute, especially if I get sensible and keep my savings where they are and building instead of getting tempted to spend them! I don't think it'll get to that point for quite a few years though, and I might have been due to throw the towel in by that point anyway. It might be nice to reclaim tinkering as a hobby rather than a chore!