Re:Human coders are still better than LLMs
by bgwalter on Thursday May 29, 2025 @02:57PM
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I want to be neither. I either want to continue being a software engineer who doesn't need a tricycle for the mind, or move to law or medicine; two professions that have successfully defended themselves against extreme versions of the kind of anxiety, obedience and self hate that is so prevalent among software engineers.
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Re:Human coders are still better than LLMs
by empath75 on Thursday May 29, 2025 @03:44PM
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Funnily enough, I had a 3 or 4 hour chat with some co workers yesterday about an LLM related project and my feeling about LLM's is that it's actually opening up a lot of fun and interesting software engineering challenges if you want to figure out how to automate the usage of LLM's.
Re:Human coders are still better than LLMs
by xandrius on Thursday May 29, 2025 @05:02PM
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Nobody is preventing people writing in Assembly, even though we have more advanced language.
You could even go back to punch cards if you want to. Literally nobody forcing you to not use it for your own fun.
But LLMs are a multiplier in many mundane tasks (I'd say about 80+% of software development for businesses), so not using them is like fighting against using a computer because you like writing by hand.
Re:Human coders are still better than LLMs
by nssnsjsjsjs on Thursday May 29, 2025 @08:43PM
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That grass is not #00FF00 there. Cory's recent essay on uber for nurses (doctors are next) and law is only second to coding on tbe AI disruptors radar plus both law and medicine have unfriendly hours for the most part.
Happy to hate myself but earn OK money for OK hours.