Re:Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything
by zahlman on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @04:44PM
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>I think that LLMs are only going to make people with real tech/programming skills much more in demand, as younger programmers skip straight into prompt engineering and never develop themselves technically beyond the bare minimum needed to glue things together.
My experience with Stack Overflow, the Python forums, etc. etc. suggests that we've been there for a year or so already.
On the one hand, it's revolutionary that it works at all (and I have to admit it works better than "at all").
But when it doesn't work, a significant fraction of those users will try to get experienced humans to fix the problem for them, for free - while also deluding themselves that they're "learning programming" through this exercise.
My experience with Stack Overflow, the Python forums, etc. etc. suggests that we've been there for a year or so already.
On the one hand, it's revolutionary that it works at all (and I have to admit it works better than "at all").
But when it doesn't work, a significant fraction of those users will try to get experienced humans to fix the problem for them, for free - while also deluding themselves that they're "learning programming" through this exercise.