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 IshKebab on Monday December 16, 2024 @05:18PM (#42436092)

> It's provably true that LLM's can generate working code.

Yeah for simple examples, especially in web dev. As soon as you step outside those bounds they make mistakes all the time.

As I said, they're still useful because roughly correct but buggy code is often quite helpful when you're programming. But there's zero chance you can just say "write me an driver for the nRF905 using Embassy and embedded-hal" and get something working. Whereas I, a human, can do that.

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Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light... by fragmede on Monday December 16, 2024 @07:20PM (#42437026)

The question is, how long would it take you to get as far as this chat does when starting from scratch?

https://chatgpt.com/share/6760c3b3-bae8-8009-8744-c25d5602bf...

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Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light... by bccdee on Monday December 16, 2024 @10:50PM (#42438166)

How confident are you in the correctness of that code?

Because, one way or another, you're still going to need to become fluent enough in the problem domain & the API that you can fully review the implementation and make sure chatgpt hasn't hallucinated in any weird problems. And chatgpt can't really explain its own work, so if anything seems funny, you're going to have to sleuth it out yourself.

And at that point, it's just 339 lines of code, including imports, comments, and misc formatting. How much time have you really saved?

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Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light... by IshKebab on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @02:45AM (#42439249)

Yeah now actually check the nRF905 documentation. You'll find it has basically made everything up.

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