Comment by throw54644532

As a SWE the comments on this page scare me if I'm being honest. If we can't define the value of a programmer vs an AI in a forum such as this then the obvious question is there to ask from an employer's perspective - in the world of AI is a programmer/SWE no longer worth employing/investing in long term? This equally applies to any jobs in tech where the job is "to do" vs "to own" (e.g. DevOps, Testing, etc etc)

Many defenders of AI tools in this thread are basically arguing against the end conclusion of the article which is that "to think" is no longer the moat it once was. I don't buy into the argument either that "people who know how to use AI tools" will somehow be safe - logically that's just a usability problem that has a lot of people seem to be interested in solving.

The impression I'm getting is that even the skill of "using/programming LLM's" is only a transitory skill and another form of cope from developers pro AI - if AI is smart enough you won't need to "know how to use it" - it will help you. That's what commoditization of intelligence is by definition - anything like "learning/intelligence/skills" is no longer required since the point is to artificially create this.

To a lay person reading this thread - in a few years (maybe two) there won't be a point of doing CS/SWE anymore.