Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light...
by datadrivenangel on Monday December 16, 2024 @09:46PM
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Plenty of jobs for coming by to read the logs across 6 systems when the LLM applications break and can't fix themselves.
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Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light...
by pdimitar on Monday December 16, 2024 @09:48PM
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Yep, quite correct.
I am even fixing one small app currently that the business owner generated with ChatGPT. So this entire discussion here is doubly amusing for me.
Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light...
by soco on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @06:45AM
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Just like we were fixing last year the PowerApps-generated apps (or any other low/no code app) the citizens developers slapped together.
Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light...
by harimau777 on Monday December 16, 2024 @10:34PM
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The question is how those jobs will pay. That seems like something that might not be able to demand a living wage.
Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light...
by nosbo on Monday December 16, 2024 @11:16PM
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If everyone prompts code. Less people will actually know what they're doing?
Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light...
by pdimitar on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @07:55AM
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That's the part many LLM proponents don't get it or hand-wave away. For now LLMs can produce okay one-off / throwaway code by having been fed with StackOverflow and Reddit. What happens 5 years down the road when half the programmers are actually prompters?
I'll stick to my "old-school" programming. I seem to have a very wealthy near-retirement period in front of me. I'll make gobs of money just by not having forgotten how to do programming.
Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light...
by hamandcheese on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @12:18AM
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Really? Excellent debugging is something I associate with higher-paid engineers.
Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light...
by pdimitar on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @07:20AM
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If it can't demand a living wage then senior programmers will not be doing it, leading to this software remaining defective. What _that_ will lead to we have no idea because we don't know what kind of software.