To be fair, in 15 years writing code, I have spent the vast majority of my time working on minor variations of problems already solved. I am not a fancy developer coming up with new algorithms. I make sign up flows, on-boarding flows, paginated lists, integrations to other apis. And I definitely feel that my job might be threatened by LLMs.
Whenever these kinds of comments are made, the short story “Profession” comes to mind by Isaac Asimov. In this story people’s aptitudes are evaluated and the relevant knowledge and skills are downloaded. The protagonist of the story however keeps being rejected for download and has to struggle to acquire the same skills his peers acquire instantly and magically. It’s a great read with a fantastic ending. The morale i…
As you often hear on HN, ideas are a dime a dozen it’s all about execution.
Well we’re rapidly approaching the time when the execution is essentially free, and done faster and better than humans.
A small team of four, over an afternoon, can literally just speak with the computer to generate a new TV ad, or develop a new sass product. There is no longer any skill required, just imagination. The problem being of course that the skills and specialized knowledge are what people have been traditionally paid for.
With all that “work” out of the way there’s not much value anyone can add . You’re probably not any smarter or creative than whoever’s manning the machine.