alt Hacker News code to spec until I get stuck
Technically it's not needed now, but everything's so new, it's understandable. Everyone's workflow hasn't migrated yet. You should go take a look.
We all mourn the loss of the craft, but the wheel turns. People still make furniture by hand sometimes, even if most furniture is made in a factory now.
Replies
The world has seen enough weather apps.
We all could live in fantastical universes where CEOs tell the truth and shareholders put other things over profits, but that's not the case. Another such case of a fantastical world, that contends with what Tolkien might have come up with, is believing LLMs are reliable, secure, or have any intelligence.
For one, I'm at peace with all these obituaries, like yours. If they're written by technical people, I rest assured of my job security. If they're not written by tech people, I'm at peace too, for time, as always, will come back with the invoice for their piss-poor hype-driven, sanguine mandates on the technical side of things.
I mean to say, it is a sad state, has always been, how informal software engineering compared to other engineering fields.
Why hasn't it gone away already? ChatGPT at least has been around for over 3 years.
Why is my AI-first colleage constantly having to get more expensive AI subscriptions approved?
>most furniture is made in a factory now
Terrible analogy. Software is not like a mass-produced item - it is written significantly less often than it is executed!
You could say that AI will allow many more variations of softwares to be written in the same time frame, but I'm still sure I can produce quality output in a competitive time.