Comment

Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding"

<- View Parent

Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I can see the statement in the same way word processing displaced secretaries.

There used to be two tiers in business. Those who wrote ideas/solutions and those who typed out those ideas into documents to be photocopied and faxed. Now the people who work on problems type their own words and email/slack/teams the information.

In the same way there are programmers who design and solve the problems, and then the coders who take those outlines and make it actually compile.

LLM will disrupt the programmers leaving the problem solvers.

source

Sort:hotnew top

IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It’ll have to improve a magnitude for that effect. Right now it’s basically an improved stack overflow.

source
- ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  …and only sometimes improved. And it’ll stop improving if people stop using Stack Overflow, since that’s one of the main places it’s mined for data.
  
  source
  - IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Nah, it’s built into the editors and repos these days.
    
    source
    ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    ?
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
michaelmrose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
There is no reason to believe that LLM will disrupt anyone any time soon. As it stands now the level of workmanship is absolutely terrible and there are more things to be done than anyone has enough labor to do. Making it so skilled professionals can do more literally just makes it so more companies can produce quality of work that is not complete garbage.

Juniors produce progressively more directly usable work with reason and autonomy and are the only way you develop seniors. As it stands LLM do nothing with autonomy and do much of the work they do wrong. Even with improvements they will in near term actually be a coworker. They remain something you a skilled person actually use like a wrench. In the hands of someone who knows nothing they are worth nothing. Thinking this will replace a segment of workers of any stripe is just wrong.

source
felbane@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The problem with this take is the assertion that LLMs are going to take the place of secretaries in your analogy. The reality is that replacing junior devs with LLMs is like replacing secretaries with a network of typewriter monkeys who throw sheets of paper at a drunk MBA who decides what gets faxed.

source
- Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’m saying that devs will use LLM’s in the same way they currently use word processing to send emails instead of handing hand written notes to a secretary to format, grammar/spell check, and type.
  
  source
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I thought by this point everyone would know how computers work.

That, uh, did not happen.

source
VubDapple@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Good take

source
Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
No

source