Re:LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024
by thomashop on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @10:24AM
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I'd say study deep learning (nice mix of maths and CS) or do software but learn to use the AI tools in the process.
If you're looking at a 5-10 year timeline then even pure or applied mathematics may well heavily use AI models.
We're always going to need architects that build the scaffolding together with LLMs. Programmers + LLMs will be able to outcompete programmers without. If one programmer can do more it just means projects will become more ambitious not less programming needed.
I've never worked for a company that had too little work for their software engineers. Rather many projects are on long timelines because there are only so many hours available per month.
Another analogy: with a high level programming language you can do what previously needed 10x the lines of code in assembly. I don't think they caused job losses for software engineers.
If you're looking at a 5-10 year timeline then even pure or applied mathematics may well heavily use AI models.
We're always going to need architects that build the scaffolding together with LLMs. Programmers + LLMs will be able to outcompete programmers without. If one programmer can do more it just means projects will become more ambitious not less programming needed.
I've never worked for a company that had too little work for their software engineers. Rather many projects are on long timelines because there are only so many hours available per month.
Another analogy: with a high level programming language you can do what previously needed 10x the lines of code in assembly. I don't think they caused job losses for software engineers.