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Re: LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do

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Post by CamperBob2 »

sillyfluke wrote: post #237
deanc wrote: post #120

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I've worked on projects in the airline and health industry which are highly regulated too. The regulations can be incredibly difficult to process and implement, and make sure you adhere to everything correctly. I've been involved in multiple scenarios where people have made false assertions about compliance or lack of. I'd still place a bet that the SOA models make _far_ less mistakes than humans.

>I'd still place a bet that the SOA models make _far_ less mistakes than humans. Genuine question: your top coder seems to be producing the most error-free code from your perspective, has the deepest knowledge of the architecture and codebase, and is faster on the trigger than the others. But your top coder has proven and verifiable dementia, where they will confidently assume the existence of apis and code that do n…

But your top coder has proven and verifiable dementia

Dementia gets worse. AI gets better. Nothing matters except d/dt.

Re: LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do

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Post by dyauspitr »

george_max wrote: post #617

I see many comments saying, "AI can't do X with 80-100% accuracy; therefore our professions are in good hands." While I don't want to sound overly pessimistic, the models are improving at a rapid rate. If asked ~3 years ago where the state of the models are today, it would sound like sci-fi if answered, "the models are creating full MVP apps in ~30 minutes with one prompt". The hurdles the models are facing now, like…

I think we’ll see a lot of layoffs and then the tech industry is going to become more vertically, integrated with product, business analysts and developers all combining into one role. It sucks because there goes one of the highest being roles in America right now that actually employed a lot of people.

Ironically, I don’t think tech support is going to be fully replaced by these anytime soon. That’s one place you definitely need to have actual people talking to other people. Lawyers and doctors are gonna be legally protected too because you still need a human to sign off on all those actions though we will probably need far fewer.

Re: LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do

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Post by CamperBob2 »

newaccountman2 wrote: post #613
monegator wrote: post #461

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re: SUNO i actually was discussing that with a guy i met the other day, an old school producer, did succesful stuff 30 years ago. He used SUNO to reinterpret old and ideas of his, in his judgement it did an excellent job and lets him create many songs daily if he want. Sounds familliar? the good old "let AI be steered by experienced X and boost productivity". All in all, gun to the head, i think i am so critical beca…

I think the general local models are better than you are giving them credit for--I have heard/read good things, at least.

A local model that's as good at music composition as Qwen 3.6 27B is at almost everything else would be absolutely transformational.

It'll happen, eventually. How could it not?

Re: LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do

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Post by yudidnmkating »

pigpop wrote: post #301
hmokiguess wrote: post #259

I always remember of the infamous Steve Jobs quote "Ideas are cheap". If execution is everything, and frontier LLMs solve execution, then ideas are the gateway to abundance now, but abundance alone does not guarantee "stickiness". What I think is often overlooked is the human "Willingness" and "Care" of staying with the thing for the lack of a better term. What I mean by that is that a lot of people just don't care e…

Suno is a good example. I've written lyrics for a lot of songs and then "produced" them with Suno, a process that involves dozens to hundreds of remix/cover/extend revisions or a lot of time in their editor to get it sounding the way I want it to. The songs are songs that I like and will listen to in my playlist but they haven't gotten much traction on Suno's algorithm. I haven't tried to promote them much elsewhere…

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Re: LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do

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Post by retinaros »

techblueberry wrote: post #688
george_max wrote: post #617

I see many comments saying, "AI can't do X with 80-100% accuracy; therefore our professions are in good hands." While I don't want to sound overly pessimistic, the models are improving at a rapid rate. If asked ~3 years ago where the state of the models are today, it would sound like sci-fi if answered, "the models are creating full MVP apps in ~30 minutes with one prompt". The hurdles the models are facing now, like…

What is your theory of when AI gets to 100%. PMs and business analysts build all the software? Or just like a 700 or so 1-founder companies in the world and everyone else is without work? The matrix?

Why would you need a pm or a biz analyst

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Post by rfgplk »

solenoid0937 wrote: post #399
t34t34r43 wrote: post #113

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Posting this under a burner so I don't dox myself: I work in FinTech on a regulated product. We have access to Mythos. Mythos identified part of our codebase that it confidently asserted was not complaint with a particular regulation and we were at grave risk by allowing it to operate the way it was. Except this was not the case, it had of course hallucinated what the regulation actually required (I know this because…

I use Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5 and haven't suffered from hallucinations in months. But we also put a lot of effort into our harness.

Those models simply don't hallucinate if you use them properly in any form. The only way they _might_ hallucinate is if you use the web based chat interface and give them zero context.

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Post by zelphirkalt »

juleiie wrote: post #168
mahogany wrote: post #83

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> As an AI optimist, I think all forced labor should eventually be done by AI. People can then spend their time pursuing their own hobbies. Just as many people still play Go after AlphaGo appeared, because they genuinely love the game. And what sort of economic system do you imagine will be in place to support billions of people being able to just play Go all day long? How do you imagine the large capitalistic global…

I think that huge deflation will follow for everything except land value. If automation makes producing food so cheap that it is almost free than it is ridiculously easy to acquire it. Similarly automated construction. The way I see it the economy will point towards outer space. That’s where most jobs and flow of economy will be. However most people will have 10x times uplift in purchasing power compared to today so…

Food is already extremely cheap to produce. So cheap, that we waste approximately 50% of it, before it even gets into households. Yet we are still forced to use money to buy it in stores, instead of getting it at no or almost no cost. I think they will find ways to keep everything costing quite a bit.

Re: LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do

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Post by rfgplk »

Aeolun wrote: post #428
solenoid0937 wrote: post #399

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I use Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5 and haven't suffered from hallucinations in months. But we also put a lot of effort into our harness.

Opus 4.8 and gpt constantly hallucinate stuff as well. If you haven’t encountered or caught it that’s something different. Of course these days it’s mostly confidently asserting a wrong thing.

I primarily use Opus for a Lisp-like DSL codebase (non public, closed source) and it genuinely has _never_ hallucinated. All it pulls from is BNF, language spec + examples. So I have no idea how people are getting it to hallucinate on _popular_ languages.
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