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by ThrowawayR2 27 days ago
It is true that most software development jobs don't need much CS knowledge to perform. The majority of developers simply kludge together common libraries, frameworks, and software packages without needing to understand all that much about the internals.

It is also true that the software development jobs that don't need much CS knowledge to perform are the ones most vulnerable to being automated away by LLMs. If a kludge is sufficient, AI can kludge it cheaper than a human.
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LtWorf 26 days ago
People who don't know how computers, compilers and operating systems work make terrible code and are normally completely unable to figure out issues if they arise.

I've found bugs in compilers, in the jvm, in libc header files.

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