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by kevin061 190 days ago
Your employer needs you because writing code was never the hardest part of programming and software engineering in general. The hardest part is managing expectations, responsibilities, cross-team communication, multi-domain expertise, corporate bureaucracy and pushing back against unnecessary requirements and constraints. None of which LLMs can solve, and are especially terrible at pushing back.
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I agree. I remember once the full especification I got was

> Enough

After talking for 4 hours and 3 coffe cups, I got enough corner cases and main case to understand what they wanted. 1 week later I got a list of criteria that can be programmed. 5 years later most of the unusual but anoying rought corners were fixed. We still had a button to aprove manually the weird cases.