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165 points gdudeman | 4 comments | 06 Jul 25 14:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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pyman ◴[06 Jul 25 16:01 UTC] No.44481864[source]▶
Two years ago, I saw myself as a really good Python engineer. Now I'm building native mobile apps, desktop apps that talk to Slack, APIs in Go, and full web apps in React, in hours or days!

It feels like I've got superpowers. I love it. I feel productive, fast, creative. But at night, there's this strange feeling of sadness. My profession, my passion, all the things I worked so hard to learn, all the time and sacrifices, a machine can now do most of it. And the companies building these tools are just getting started.

What does this mean for the next generation of engineers? Where's it all heading? Do you feel the same?

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1. octopoc ◴[06 Jul 25 16:10 UTC] No.44481940[source]▶
Yeah there are a lot of things in programming that I don’t enjoy, that I can now avoid doing, like learning how to do the same technical thing in a different language/framework.

But the stuff I enjoy doing is something I don’t delegate to the agent. I just wonder how long the stuff I enjoy can be delegated to an agent who will do it cheaper and faster.

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2. giancarlostoro ◴[06 Jul 25 16:43 UTC] No.44482175[source]▶
Till theres an outage and the AI cannot help because they got rid of all the technical people or worse it generates sloppy underperforming code. You will continue to need devs for a good minute.
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3. AnotherGoodName ◴[06 Jul 25 17:00 UTC] No.44482307[source]▶
For this you lose a day of llm usage? Big deal. Don’t mean to pick on you at all but I also saw you with a comment above along the lines of ‘but what if the llm includes nsfw stuff?’ which again seems to be clutching at straws since we all still at least review whats being added.

I feel since the worst criticisms of llms in this thread boil down to down to ‘llm might be offline, might include nsfw stuff and might lead to non experts coding with poor results’ which are such weak criticisms that it’s is a damn good compliment to just how good they’ve gotten isn’t it?

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4. rcruzeiro ◴[06 Jul 25 19:13 UTC] No.44483202{3}[source]▶
I don’t think you understood his point?