[whateveracct]

why do people forget so quickly that you can just code without LLMs? And be hugely impactful? Like in 2020 i coded better shit than my principle agentic engineer

go do a good job. it's increasingly rare nowadays.

the frauds are growing.

[i2km]

It's bizarre isn't it. It being treated as though actually knowing how to write quality code by hand is a skill that's somehow been lost to time...

I can only guess that a lot of the engineers who went into software purely for money were all too happy to distance themselves from writing code and really don't want to go back...

[Izkata]

Also skill atrophy due to over-reliance on these tools is a real thing. And for some people it happens really fast, just a couple of months before they start noticing a difference (like with two of my co-workers - one stated directly to me, another indirectly through a team member).

[mynameisbilly]

Do you still write assembly code?

[whateveracct]

non sequitur. English through an LLM isn't the same as a higher level language compiling to a lower one.

I am very familiar with this because I write Haskell. Which compiles to Core. Which is actually an extension of Sustem F which itself is an extension of lambda calculus. That then compiles to STG. That then compiles to Cmm. That then compiles to assembly code.

See how that isn't the same as an LLM? To the point where your comment is a non sequitur?