Comment by bananapub
5 days ago
this seems like a true but pointless observation? if you're producing security-sensitive code then experts need to be involved, whether that's me unwisely getting a junior to do something, or receiving a PR from my cat, or using an LLM.
removing expert humans from the loop is the deeply stupid thing the Tech Elite Who Want To Crush Their Own Workforces / former-NFT fanboys keep pushing, just letting an LLM generate code for a human to review then send out for more review is really pretty boring and already very effective for simple to medium-hard things.
> …removing expert humans from the loop is the deeply stupid thing the Tech Elite Who Want To Crush Their Own Workforce…
this is completely expected behavior by them. departments with well paid experts will be one of the first they’ll want to cut. in every field. experts cost money.
we’re a long, long, long way off from a bot that can go into random houses and fix under the sink plumbing, or diagnose and then fix an electrical socket. however, those who do most of their work on a computer, they’re pretty close to a point where they can cut these departments.
in every industry in every field, those will be jobs cut first. move fast and break things.
I think it's a critically important observation.
I thought this experience was so helpful as it gave an objective, evidence-based sample on both the pros and cons of AI-assisted coding, where so many of the loudest voices on this topic are so one-sided ("AI is useless" or "developers will be obsolete in a year"). You say "removing expert humans from the loop is the deeply stupid thing the Tech Elite Who Want To Crush Their Own Workforces / former-NFT fanboys keep pushing", but the fact is many people with the power to push AI onto their workers are going to be more receptive to actual data and evidence than developers just complaining that AI is stupid.