Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?

Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light... by oops on Monday December 16, 2024 @04:13PM (#42435487)

My experience so far has been: if I know what I want well enough to explain it to an LLM then it’s been easier for me to just write the code. Iterating on prompts, reading and understanding the LLM’s code, validating that it works and fixing bugs is still time consuming.

It has been interesting as a rubber duck, exploring a new topic or language, some code golf, but so far not for production code for me.

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Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light... by qup on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @10:59AM (#42442407)

Okay, but as soon as you need to do the same thing in [programming language you don't know], then it's not easier for you to write the code anymore, even though you understand the problem domain just as well.

Now, understand that most people don't have the same grasp of [your programming language] that you have, so it's probably not easier for them to write it.

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Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light... by oops on Friday December 20, 2024 @10:36AM (#42471995)

I don’t disagree with anything you said and I don’t think anything you said disagrees with my original comment :)

I actually said in my comment that exploring a new language is one area I find LLMs to be interesting.

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