[smolder]

> Are these people cooked?

Yes. This is a weird kind of denial about the LLMs that cost nation-state levels of energy doing human nerd work.

They aren't perfect at all, but there's very little reason to be anything but a prompt engineer and proof reader anymore.

[goatlover]

This is an absurdly overgeneralized take for a wide and diverse field, and it's also false. Of course for some people it's true, but hardly for everyone. I doubt it's even the majority of all programmers.

[techblueberry]

Prompt engineering died like 2 years ago.

[gmueckl]

The naysayers aren't cooked at all. They have really, really good points that align with my own experience so perfectly It's eerie. Vine coding has a price tag attached that will have to be paid with interest eventually. The trouble is that it takes a whole damn lot of experience see these signs early.

That doesn't mean that LLM slop code can't be useful. But you just can't build a whole business entirely by surfing a wave of vibe coded slop. That wave will break over you and drown you eventually.

[bakugo]

Prompt engineering? Proof reading? That's so last month, who even does that anymore? What a nerd.

All this condescending drivel about how "anyone who still writes code by hand is a loser, but not me, I'm a prompt engineer because I'm smart and forward-thinking" is so painfully tone-deaf, as if this "prompt engineering" has any lasting value and isn't just a momentary stepping stone towards a techno-feudalist future where every tech company consists of a small group of very wealthy executives, typing what they want in plain words into a text box and having the AI do everything for them, with no need for anyone below them.