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> I honestly think we’re being played. Supposing this is true, who is playing us and why?
I didn't intend anything super nefarious there; I just think it's Influencer-style marketing that's going on.
Ah, I see.
Dev jobs are about to get a hard reset and nobody's ready
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Re: Dev jobs are about to get a hard reset and nobody's ready
#92I'm doing a reasonable size project with Claude Code doing almost all of the programming, and it's quite challenging. Vibe coding is easy and fast, but you end up not being an expert in the code base or really having any idea about it. And once it reaches a certain size, the LLM isn't an expert on it either. It is only an expert on cleanly isolated sections of it, which, by the way, it's really bad at producing witho…
I wrote a comment in a similar thread a few weeks ago describing my LLM-coding experience - here's a copy+paste (so any quote replies will be out of context / not actually replying to your comment): I'll preface this comment with: I am a recent startup owner (so only dev, which is important) and my entire codebase has been generated via Sonnet (mostly 3.7, now using 4.0). If you actually looked at the work I'm (perso…
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Re: Dev jobs are about to get a hard reset and nobody's ready
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In a situation where the transformations are explicit and can almost be mechanical with little to no involved reasoning. With those requirements, the LLM just has to recognize the patterns and "translate" them to the new pattern. Which is almost exactly what they were designed to do.
Agree with that but it doesn't really fall under the umbrella that I'd use the term "refactoring" for. Replacing something with something else isn't a refactor to me, a refactor implies a structural change not a wide surface level change.
There’s a famous book called “Refactoring”