[fragmede]

Unfortunately my time machine is in the shop, so I don't know what the future looks like, so looking for comparisons is just my way of looking into the future.

My main argument for the viability of the technology is that it's useful today. Even if it doesn't improve from here, my job as a coder has already been changed.

[bluefirebrand]

> Even if it doesn't improve from here, my job as a coder has already been changed.

This is so annoying to me. My job as a coder hasn't changed because my responsibilities as a coder hasn't changed

Whether or not I beg an LLM to write code for me or write it myself the job is the same. At best there's a new tool to use but the job hasn't changed.

[fragmede]

The responsibilities haven't changed, but the amount of time I have to spend reading documentation to regurgitate something that matches the docs in just the right way has plummeted. That wasn't the whole job, no, but that was a component of my job and to pretend otherwise would be dishonest of me. I don't know you so I don't know how much of your job was that aspect. I will be transparent and say that it did add up over a month though. Says more about me and my job than anything else though, I suppose.

[bluefirebrand]

Yeah it adds up until you have learned it and don't need to look it up again next time

Using the LLM guarantees you will need to use the LLM every time imo

Just like using a calculator guarantees you'll never learn to do mental math. Yes it's easier and we all have calculators in our pockets now, but when you don't actually train a skill you become reliant on the tech

That's a bad outcome in many ways imo

[fragmede]

But at the end of the day, I'm not being paid because I didn't use a calculator, I'm being paid to do calculations, in this analogy. The new skill, then, is in how to use the calculator efficiently and produce more, rather than try and be better than the calculator.