Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career

Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by Aperocky on Monday May 11, 2026 @02:14PM (#48098558)

We are not pre-trained using the summary of all human knowledge over all of history. Yet we make certain decisions with much more ease.

We are much more limited, but we fundamentally work differently. Hence adding more parameter like certain companies are doing isn't necessarily going to help. We need to rethink how LLM work, or how it work in tandem with something that's completely different.

I think it's doable, I just don't believe it's LLM, and I don't think anyone now knows what it is.

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Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by bel8 on Monday May 11, 2026 @02:22PM (#48098680)

> We are not pre-trained using the summary of all human knowledge over all of history.

But we are? That's our education system.

The only reason school doesn't try to shove more information in our brains is because we hit bandwidth limits.

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Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by KalMann on Monday May 11, 2026 @03:19PM (#48099460)

> But we are? That's our education system.

That is not what the education system does. That's an obvious distortion of reality. People train over billions of documents to statistically predict the next word to gain and understanding of language. LLMs do this statistical processing in order to mimic humans natural language learning ability. And there has been continued evidence of the limitations of this approach to accurately mimic the totality of human cognition.

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