Comment by uludag
7 months ago
Completely solved? I'd say exacerbated beyond recognition. We have tools to let us get by so much farther without understanding anything, so it probably becomes less of a problem in more cases. But it basically guarantees that all but the most curious will not understand how the system actually works. Everything becomes magical copy/pasting from the most advanced information retrieval system with LLMs.
But LLMs is literally a "person in the room" that actually knows how it works.
The simplification and explanation abilities of chatGPT are off the charts in precisely these cases. I honestly don't understand why I'm being downvoted.
You wanted a simpler make file before ? go spend 2 days learning the make syntax
You want a simpler make file now ? just ask for it as long as as the explanation with it of all the concepts to ChatGPT and you'll get it
Imagine if copy-pasting LLM output is the valuable part of human participation in software development. The act of copy-past sounds like drudgery, not problem solving. Another user phrased it best:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42646989