Hmm, I didn’t read the article but from the gist of other comments, we seem to have bought into Sama’s “agents so good, you don’t need developers/engineers/support/secretaries/whatever anymore”. Issue is, it is almost same as claiming, pocket calculators so good, we don’t need accountants anymore, even computers so good, we don’t need accountants anymore. This AI seems to claim to be that motor car moment when horse cart got replaced. But a horse cart got replaced with a Taxi(and they also have unions protecting them!). With AI, all these “to be replaced” people are like accountants, more productive, same as with higher level languages compared to assembly, many new devs are productive. Despite cars replacing the horse carts of the long past, we still fail to have self driving cars and still someone needs to learn to drive that massive hunk of metal, same as whoever plans to deploy LLM to layoff devs must learn to drive those LLMs and know what it is doing.
I believe it is high time we come out this madness and reveal the lies of the marketers and grifters of AI for what it is. If AI can replace anyone, it should begin with doctors, they work with rote knowledge and service based on explicit(though ambiguous) inputs, same as an LLM needs, but I still have doctors and wait for hours on end in the waiting room to get prescribed a cough hard candy only to later comeback again because it was actually covid and my doctor had a brain fart.