[ttoinou]

Lots of software engineers were just stack overflow copy pasters. No offense, it’s also a good way to learn, I’ve also done my fair share of stupid programming, but let’s not pretend the value to humankind was huge there

[sublinear]

Lots of people are now writing much worse code with AI. I'm not sure what you're saying other than "experience is valuable".

[ttoinou]

If it's prototypes or throwaway scripts, then it's fine and it's still valuable experience

[ShinyLeftPad]

Sure, now when they are LLM copy-pasters things are going to suddenly improve

[ttoinou]

With AI LLM, the power of smart copy pasting is now also in the hands of non-geeky people. And also more senior developers can spin up and manage dozens of juniors via agentic AI

Juniors now need to be more skilled than before

[ShinyLeftPad]

> the power of smart copy pasting is now also in the hands of non-geeky people

Why? they didn't know how to copy before or something?

> spin up and manage dozens of juniors

Let's not call it a "junior" if one trigger word deep in the filesystem can make it forget it's a programmer and start building Minecraft castles. Your comparison is unfair to anyone with even 1 week of programming experience.

[ttoinou]

What if your junior is contacted by a three letter agency ? He will be legally forced in the USA to follow their direction and not your instruction.

LLM are so powerful exactly because they can interpret unstructured inputs in so many ways, prompt injection is a feature not a bug

[ShinyLeftPad]

Why do you think an LLM is following only your instructions? Unless maybe you are in a tiny minority running locally