Ask HN: Is the acceptance of LLMs short-sighted?

Re:Ask HN: Is the acceptance of LLMs short-sighted? by techostritch on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @12:14PM (#41311636)

I don’t think so. If an LLM is sufficient to write your code, then your code probably wasn’t unique enough to contribute to the shared knowledge anyways. You could make the same argument about coding frameworks,

“If everyone uses react rather than vanilla JS; won’t we lose the critical mass of minds necessary to keep momentum with innovation?”

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Re:Ask HN: Is the acceptance of LLMs short-sighted? by mrdependable on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @12:21PM (#41311710)

Who is going to be left to write unique code if programming is seen as a terrible career choice?

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Re:Ask HN: Is the acceptance of LLMs short-sighted? by techostritch on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @12:32PM (#41311847)

There are still people alive today making good money writing COBOL. There are still professional blacksmiths alive today. I don’t always think the free market solves everything, but in this case specifically I think it will. When there’s a dearth of programmers, and a clear need for those programmers, wages will go up. And there will be people to fill those roles? particularly because I think it will continue to be a hobby for a long time.

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Re:Ask HN: Is the acceptance of LLMs short-sighted? by wmf on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @05:23PM (#41314320)

It would become a contrarian "secret" used by startups.

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