Ask HN: Has AI/LLMs turned you off of tech?

I have always loved correctness, cleanliness, and understanding how things work. Companies are racing to integrate tools that remove all of those attributes from my job. LLMs constantly spit out false information, poorly written and buggy code, and their inner workings are a black box of statistical knobs. They are a tool that encourages bloat and turns the job of the software engineer into a code checker watching over the shoulder of an intern.

I’ve realized the age of discrete, deterministic computing is coming to a close. Due to the tantalizing notion that programming can be commoditized and outsources to a machine, I know corporations will continue to pursue this avenue in full force. It’s put me into a real depression, and I wonder if I’m the only one.

But while corporations may pursue the "code checker watching over the shoulder of an intern" approach for a while in many domains, it will only prove cost-effective in a handful. The market for software developers will further polarize into roles which require extensive training and experience and roles which are relatively de-skilled.

I still have a lot of useful things I'm building and learning about.

Maybe I'll feel bummed out if entire projects are being generated and I become QA. But we're not there yet.

Right now it has absolutely zero impact to me

And in the near future it seems more likely we'd just move up in the abstraction stack and become the people managing/developing/debugging/deploying/maintaining the models

It’s strange taking information at face value, and then when you come across something you’re deeply knowledgable about and it’s horribly incorrect yet has thousands of upvotes, you start to wonder just how much you’ve read is actually junk info.

Little wonder that LLMs can’t get things right when they’re working off knowledge bases of absolute shit.