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by bakugo 358 days ago
> We‘ll only need senior/staff/architect level code reviewers and prompt engineers.

And what will you do when all the seniors retire and there's no juniors to take their place because they were replaced by AI?

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In college, newcomers will start with the basics of high level languages and then spend the rest of the time learning prompting.

Just like nowadays assembler is only a side note, C is only taught in specialized classes (OS, graphics) and most things are taught in high level languages.

How will they be able to review AI generated code if they don't understand anything beyond the basics?
How will they be able to review AI generated code

The same way most of us review our compiler generated code today (ie not at all). If it works it works, if doesn't we fix the higher level input and try again. I won't be surprised if in a few more generation the AI will skip the human readable code step and generate ASTs directly.

> if doesn't we fix the higher level input and try again

How can I visit this fantasy world of yours where LLMs are as reliable and deterministic as compilers and any mistakes can be blamed solely on the user?

How can I visit this fantasy world of yours...

Wait 20 years.

10 years, 20 years...

It's really easy to make unsubstantiated claims about what will happen decades from now, knowing your claims will be long forgotten when that time finally comes around.