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by kilroy123 177 days ago
Yeah it boggles my mind all the people on here constantly dismissing LLMs.

It's very clearly getting better and better rapidly. I don't think this train is stopping even if this bubble bursts.

The cold ass reality is: We're going to need a lot less software engineers moving forward. Just like agriculture now needs way less humans to do the same work than in the past.

I hate to be blunt but if you're in the bottom half of the developer skill bell curve, you're cooked.

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If you hate reading other people's code, then you'll hate reading llm generated code, then all you'll ever be with ai at best is yet another vibe coder who produces piles of code they never intend to read, so you should have found another career even before llms were a thing.

Responsible use of ai means reading lots and lots of generated code, understanding it, reviewing and auditing it, not "vibe coding" for the purpose of avoiding ever reading any code.

> If you hate reading other people's code, then you'll hate reading llm generated code, then all you'll ever be with ai at best is yet another vibe coder who produces piles of code they never intend to read, so you should have found another career even before llms were a thing.

I do like to read other people's code if it is of an exceptional high standard. But otherwise I am very vocal in criticizing it.