Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post
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Re: Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post
#2I strongly agree with the author replies. I cannot grasp the reasonment of those who underestimate the power of these tools and their growing potential.
We should remember that the outside world care about things that work, not about how good they are inside sadly.
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#3I've had quite a few conversations and read many thoughts on the subject of job security in the software industry through the years. New technologies, various crisis and crashes, just age, incoming "hordes" of less prepared developers, or whatever.
If I had to highlight the one thing all those conversations had in common it would be precisely this:
I thought that having this knowledge would set me apart
Re: Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post
#4I agree, his takes should not be dismissed lightly. I'm not sure about "demand is fixed" though. I feel like software demand has been declared saturated at least a few times.
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#5I agree, his takes should not be dismissed lightly. I'm not sure about "demand is fixed" though. I feel like software demand has been declared saturated at least a few times.
I have been making software professionally for 25 years and in all that time i have never run into the problem that we have run out of things to do.
Re: Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post
#6I agree, his takes should not be dismissed lightly. I'm not sure about "demand is fixed" though. I feel like software demand has been declared saturated at least a few times.
Agreed. The limitations of human context window and communication bandwidth restrict the complexity of large-scale software.
LLM will have an extremely large context window and extremely high communication bandwidth in the future. Therefore, even more complex large-scale software will emerge.
Re: Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post
#7I strongly agree with the author replies. I cannot grasp the reasonment of those who underestimate the power of these tools and their growing potential. We should remember that the outside world care about things that work, not about how good they are inside sadly.
> We should remember that the outside world care about things that work, not about how good they are inside sadly.
Until they go wrong because they are not good inside.
Re: Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post
#8I've had quite a few conversations and read many thoughts on the subject of job security in the software industry through the years. New technologies, various crisis and crashes, just age , incoming "hordes" of less prepared developers, or whatever. If I had to highlight the one thing all those conversations had in common it would be precisely this: I thought that having this knowledge would set me apart And it never…
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Re: Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post
#9I strongly agree with the author replies. I cannot grasp the reasonment of those who underestimate the power of these tools and their growing potential. We should remember that the outside world care about things that work, not about how good they are inside sadly.
This is true. I have artist friends that are boycotting any company using AI art for their flyers/ads.
I looked at some examples and couldn't tell the difference.
Re: Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post
#10I agree, his takes should not be dismissed lightly. I'm not sure about "demand is fixed" though. I feel like software demand has been declared saturated at least a few times.
I have been making software professionally for 25 years and in all that time i have never run into the problem that we have run out of things to do .
Do not use past events to predict the future, or you risk end up becoming a turkey: https://peteweishaupt.medium.com/talebs-tu-e406eb8859a8