How AI is upending the software development industry

Re:How AI is upending the software development industry by jonas21 on Saturday August 09, 2025 @05:24PM (#44850379)

It's likely that the skills you'd learn as an entry-level engineer today will be mostly irrelevant to being a senior 10 years from now -- just as knowing how to write a program on punch cards is irrelevant to today's engineers.

Seniors will have to come from somewhere, but it wouldn't be through this pipeline, even if companies were still hiring at full rate for entry-level work.

For some just getting into the field, this could be a great opportunity -- if you can figure out where the puck is heading, you can skate directly there.

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Re:How AI is upending the software development industry by hn_throwaway_99 on Saturday August 09, 2025 @05:36PM (#44850499)

Couldn't disagree more. Learning the basic building blocks of programming (which is stuff that LLMs can do at a high level when dealing with small, self-contained problems) is critical because understanding the low-level details is so important when you're applying systems-level thinking.

I've interviewed more that a few "software architects" who couldn't put together a for loop, and these folks were largely just BS artists and PowerPoint generators.

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Re:How AI is upending the software development industry by rediscovery on Sunday August 10, 2025 @04:46AM (#44853791)

The only skill set that exists in knowledge work is formal logic.

But yeah I'm sure increasing energy input into symbolic systems will not increase their entropy and thus the demand for workers capable of formal logic to keep it in check.

Because dumping representations of formal logic on a exponentially increasing repository of compressed data will surely start giving out output with higher informational content than the input. Any time now. Just double the size of the model a few more times and we will start getting lower entropy outcomes for free.

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