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Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light... by datadrivenangel on Monday December 16, 2024 @09:46PM (#42437845)
Plenty of jobs for coming by to read the logs across 6 systems when the LLM applications break and can't fix themselves.
Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light... by pdimitar on Monday December 16, 2024 @09:48PM (#42437859)
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 (#42440582)
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 (#42438094)
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 (#42438279)
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 (#42440975)
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 (#42438560)
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 (#42440789)
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.