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Re:LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don... by camdenreslink on Sunday June 07, 2026 @08:46PM (#48440180)
> Let's not pretend that someone with prior software skills will be able to produce larger scale and/or higher quality work compared to someone with no experience.

This seems like a really confident prediction. It isn't true right now, why do you think it will be true in the future? Right now having knowledge and experience is a huge benefit to steering the LLM (it makes dumb decisions all the time still).

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Re:LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don... by pyth0 on Monday June 08, 2026 @07:56AM (#48444216)
I totally intended to say "let's not pretend that ... will NOT be able to". Typo and poorly worded, my mistake. I completely agree that the prior experience significantly amplifies what you can do with an LLM over someone without experience.
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