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 palata on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @06:03AM (#42440342)

> I spent a few hours yesterday pulling it’s massive blobby component apart by hand. But on the plus side, I didn’t have to write the whole thing.

The question, really, is: are you confident that this was better than actually writing the whole thing yourself? Not only in terms of how long it took this one time, but also in terms of how much you learned while doing it.

You accumulate experience when you write code, which is an investment. It makes you better for later. Now if the LLM makes you slightly faster in the short term, but prevents you from acquiring experience, then I would say that it's not a good deal, is it?

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Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light... by pdimitar on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @07:19AM (#42440780)

Those are the right questions indeed, thank you for being one of the commenters who looks past the niche need of "I want to generate this and move along".

I tried LLMs several times, even started using my phone's timers, and found out that just writing the code I need by hand is quicker and easier on my brain. Proof-reading and looking for correctness in something already written is more brain-intensive.

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Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light... by askafriend on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @01:01AM (#42448439)

Asking questions and thinking critically about the answers is how I learn. The information is better structured with LLMs.

Everyone isn't "generating and moving on". There's still a review and iteration part of the process. That's where the learning happens.

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