alt Hacker NewsSure, but depending on what your job is it can make the work feel even more meaningless than it was prior to LLMs.
All the work most people are doing it just going to be Ctrl+A deleted and replaced with someone else's LLM slop using Opus 8 in an afternoon.
All the shit people are building right now just feel ephemeral, like its going to float away on a breeze.
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ifwinterco • yesterday at 2:06 PM
You might be right in the end, but the middle of a massive outage probably at least somewhat exacerbated by LLMs, being debugged by (presumably) human software engineers is kind of a weird time to make this point
Well it's getting philosophical. Even before AI, I would argue that the vast majority of software was meaningless. Actually the most successful software on Earth is hurting society and the environment, in exchange for profit for a few humans.
I don't know any software engineer who can say "if I was not doing what I do, society would get a little worse".