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383 points meetpateltech | 2 comments | 16 May 25 15:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.413s | source

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skovati ◴[16 May 25 16:01 UTC] No.44007027[source]▶

I'm curious how many ICs are truly excited about these advancements in coding agents. It seems to me the general trend is we become more like PMs managing agents and reviewing PRs, all for the sake of productivity gains.

I imagine many engineers are like myself in that they got into programming because they liked tinkering and hacking and implementation details, all of which are likely to be abstracted over in this new era of prompting.

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1. davedx ◴[16 May 25 16:19 UTC] No.44007221[source]▶

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I think the death of our craft is around the corner. It doesn't fill me with joy.

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2. evantbyrne ◴[16 May 25 20:37 UTC] No.44009604[source]▶

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Software engineering requires a fair amount of intelligence, so if these tools ever get to replacement levels of quality then it's not just developers that will be out of jobs. ARC-AGI-2, the countless anecdotes from professionals I've seen across the industry, and personal experience all very clearly point to a significant gap between the tools that exist today and general intelligence. I would recommend keeping an eye on improvements just because of the sheer capital investments going into it, but I won't be losing any sleep waiting for the rapture.

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