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 ta12653421 on Thursday December 19, 2024 @04:35AM (#42459900)

Do not know how you are using them? It speeded up my development around 8-10x, things i wouldnt have done earlier i'm doing now, e let it do by the AI; writing boilerplate etc. Just great!

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Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light... by pdimitar on Thursday December 19, 2024 @08:29AM (#42461197)

8-10x?! That's quite weird if you ask me.

I just used Claude recently. Helped me with an obscure library and with the hell that is JWT + OAuth through the big vendors. Definitely saved me a few hours and I am grateful, but those cases are rare.

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Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light... by ta12653421 on Saturday December 21, 2024 @05:37AM (#42478827)

I developed things which i would have never started without AI because i could see upfront that there would be a lot of mundane/exhausting tasks

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Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light... by pdimitar on Saturday December 21, 2024 @05:44AM (#42478862)

Amusingly, lately I did something similar, though I still believe my manual code is better in Elixir. :)

I'm open to LLMs being a productivity enabler. Recently I started occasionally using them for that as well -- sparingly. I more prefer to use them for taking shortcuts when I work with libraries whose docs are lacking.

...But I did get annoyed at the "programming as a profession is soon dead!" people. I do agree with most other takes on LLMs, however.

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