Comment by barotalomey

16 days ago

> The gap between Sr and Jr skills with close as AI gets better.

Sorry, but as the wind blows, we only have indications of the opposite so far and it's wildly reported as a generating losing their ability for deep thought, relying too much on automated code generation. This is especially damaging for juniors, who never get the chance to learn the tricks of the trade in the first place, and they're the ones having a hard time explaining what the code the LLM generated even does.

Seniors will be few and far between, and we will charge premium for fixing up the crap LLM created, which will fit us great before retirement.

Good luck when we are retired.

The wind has blown from autocomplete to scaffolding entire applications. Where do you think this is heading?

Your comment addresses another issue, again in isolated temporal fashion. You and I do not understand assembly language. Previous generations of engineers did.

  • > You and I do not understand assembly language.

    Having written z80 and x86 assembly since the 80s, being knee deep in several decompilation projects and a couple of emulators since then, I can safely tell you that I do know a handful assembly languages and at least 2 syntaxes.

    I believe other seniors have similar skill sets, for now.