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by win311fwg 14 days ago
> What I can’t understand is why you all seem so fucking gleeful about it.

Many asked the same question when loom operators were on the way out. But in hindsight would you have rather seen it play out the other way and now have loom operating being the thing that you do? Freeing one from operating a loom allowed us to move into software development. I, for one, am thankful I don't have to operate a loom.

What you may have missed is that many software developers are actually engineers. Engineers don't care about software, they care about solving problems. Even if LLMs can somehow solve all problems that can be solved with software, there will still be an endless list of more problems to solve that cannot be solved with software. Software is just a tool in the toolbox, not one's identity. So what if one of those tools is no longer needed?