AI: Accelerated Incompetence
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AI: Accelerated Incompetence
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#2At first, I was not convinced then I thought I would be replaced, now I'm convinced the AI slop is unstoppable and having the hard skills will quickly be invaluable
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#3Is AI perhaps an opportunity for years of paid cleanup and re-design work that those of us who have dedicated decades to learning the craft of software engineering will be able to cash in on?
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#4At first, I was not convinced then I thought I would be replaced, now I'm convinced the AI slop is unstoppable and having the hard skills will quickly be invaluable
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#5> If you're a skilled, experienced engineer and you fear that AI will make you unemployable, adopt a more nuanced view. LLMs can't replace human engineering.
Ah, but you see, without any promise of pudding: why eat the meat? I do the 'human engineering' part only to do... the rest of the engineering.
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#6I was hoping the AI could replace me, maybe the IA would fulfill my boss deadlines
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#7Is AI perhaps an opportunity for years of paid cleanup and re-design work that those of us who have dedicated decades to learning the craft of software engineering will be able to cash in on?
"Software Engineering in the Age of AI" is the new "Maintaining Legacy Code Effectively"
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#8I'm really appreciating some of the writing en AI that is coming out now. Beyond simply "vibe coding is bad" but advancing arguments about the specific risks.
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#9I use LLMs for annoying shit that used to take an inordinate amount of time. For example an analyst gives me a CSV, it has some data clean up issues, eventually it needs to become a series of SQL inserts.
What was a day of script writing becomes 15 minutes of prompt engineering to clean up the CSV and convert it into the proper statements. Massive time savings!
I believe one can vibe code a basic app or script. Like building one of those little trinkets people put on websites, like calculators or mini games.
But I agree, the LLM can’t build, say, Google Chrome, or AWS Cognito, or Netflix, or anything that actually has serious billion dollar value. It’s not a “when” question, because these are not “solvable” problems.
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#10> The text in this essay was written without any use of AI.
That's fine, although I think only native English speakers would be proud of that. I am sure he also didn't use a spell-checker.