Yea, that's mostly why I get hired. Experience gives people a certain intuition on what kind of solutions work for which cases.
And when you've been working long enough, you don't (hopefully) feel the need to do cool bleeding edge shit at work, you just want the work code to ... work. You pick the simplest and most boring solution possible so you can clock out at 1600 and not think about services crashing because the newfangled thingamageek coded with the latest language du jour failed because of an edge case nobody has seen before.
Wow. The hype around "AI"s has entered the crypto stages. Just like crypto was the new car, the new internet etc., so is AI now.
Well, at least AI is useful in certain applications.
And horse carriages have some serious advantages, maybe even will make a comeback. :)
I feel completely differently about LLMs; I'd say we're closer to 2007 when the first iPhone was released. I believe LLMs will become a part of our day to day lives at a level that crypto never came close to.
Obviously it's a cheeky example, but this would not be the first time in history a previously well-established career was upended in a (relatively) short amount of time. I'm a FAANG dev, I've got skin in the game too and I'm trying to be optimistic, but I can't help but be at least a little worried. From Wikipedia -
"In 1890 there were 13,800 companies in the United States in the business of building carriages pulled by horses. By 1920, only 90 such companies remained."
I don't think we'll be out of the job entirely, but I can definitely imagine the bar being raised and the compensation stagnating as we now have to justify the time and cost of our work compared to the near-free, near-instantaneous output of an LLM.
All that being said, if you've been working since the 2000s, you've got nearly a 20 year head-start on me, so perhaps it makes sense for me to be a bit more worried.