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LLM Inevitabilism

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1616 points SwoopsFromAbove | 3 comments | 15 Jul 25 04:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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rafaelero ◴[15 Jul 25 17:24 UTC] No.44573627[source]▶
Right now, I’m noticing how my colleagues who aren’t very comfortable using LLMs for most of their work are getting sidelined. It's a bit sad seeing them struggle by not keeping pace with everyone else who is using it for ~90% of our tasks. They seem to really care about writing code themselves, but, if they don't pivot, things are probably not going to end well for them.

So is LLM inevitable? Pretty much if you want to remain competitive.

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1. feoren ◴[15 Jul 25 17:35 UTC] No.44573747[source]▶
Can I take a guess and say that you and your colleagues are all pretty inexperienced? I'll wager less than 4 years experience max, working in a regimented structure, mostly closing tickets for well-understood features? Because I do not know anyone with >10 years experience working in a well-understood language but a relatively unexplored domain that uses LLMs to create any code. I only see LLMs being widely used by inexperienced programmers (or just new to the language) -- which sucks, because we need inexperienced programmers writing code by hand in order to get more experienced programmers.
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2. rafaelero ◴[15 Jul 25 19:14 UTC] No.44574796[source]▶
I have been working in software for about 6 years and we are working in a new startup building our product. LLM's have been fundamental and it makes things so much faster.
3. booleandilemma ◴[16 Jul 25 05:04 UTC] No.44578838[source]▶
Hi, someone with over 10 years of experience here. I finally got around to reading this thread and just saw your comment. Thanks for the sanity.