I'm not really sure what point this article is trying to make
Software developers still need to think. Models can't do everything. That's it.
The AI Situation in Software Development
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#12And you immediately give up your IP for someone else to use. The 4th option, if you have something in your mind worth building, is to just build the thing, without an LLM.
Sure if you use remote AI services, but any companies working on niche markets where they want to protect their IP, or they simply work with sensitive stuff, will rely on local AI instead.
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#13My personal experience is the larger the task you ask it to do, the less attention it pays to the details - for a very large task it seems more prone to missing test coverage, writing duplicate code, not refactoring where it should etc. So I try to split into smaller tasks where possible (also makes it easier to review).
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#14C in author's name stands for chu**
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#15With previous engineering trends like blockchains and microservices, you could choose not to jump on the bandwagon. However the coding agents trend is different and is changing the very fabric (sry for Claudeism) of software engineering, for better or worse. I do know we will never go back to mainly programming through code again, that’s for sure.
There are still companies who refuse to believe this and still put Senior+ devs through hell during an interview process with junior level algorithm memorization. In all aspects there will be dinosaurs and deniers and there will be embracers.
There is no such thing as "junior level algorithm".
And one does not memorize algorithms.
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#16With previous engineering trends like blockchains and microservices, you could choose not to jump on the bandwagon. However the coding agents trend is different and is changing the very fabric (sry for Claudeism) of software engineering, for better or worse. I do know we will never go back to mainly programming through code again, that’s for sure.
Knowledge work has changed...But it doesn't solve company internal governance nor politics.
When it takes anywhere between 2 weeks and 3months to do anything ( including approvals for non prod access) in most organizations...Code has never been the problem.
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#17With previous engineering trends like blockchains and microservices, you could choose not to jump on the bandwagon. However the coding agents trend is different and is changing the very fabric (sry for Claudeism) of software engineering, for better or worse. I do know we will never go back to mainly programming through code again, that’s for sure.
> I do know we will never go back to mainly programming through code again, that’s for sure.
Say who?
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#18And you immediately give up your IP for someone else to use. The 4th option, if you have something in your mind worth building, is to just build the thing, without an LLM.
Sure if you use remote AI services, but any companies working on niche markets where they want to protect their IP, or they simply work with sensitive stuff, will rely on local AI instead.
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#19With previous engineering trends like blockchains and microservices, you could choose not to jump on the bandwagon. However the coding agents trend is different and is changing the very fabric (sry for Claudeism) of software engineering, for better or worse. I do know we will never go back to mainly programming through code again, that’s for sure.
>you could choose not to jump on the bandwagon I think it's not an option. The benefits are just too large for me. >I do know we will never go back to mainly programming through code again, that’s for sure. I think, in some niches, i.e. where there's something not well represented in the training set, it still makes sense to write code by hand. But I am not sure that it will continue.
poor reading comprehension, re-read and try again
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#20And you immediately give up your IP for someone else to use. The 4th option, if you have something in your mind worth building, is to just build the thing, without an LLM.
What IP? Everything can be duplicated within a 1week to a month...