Comment by ang_cire

> Almost every senior developer I know is spending that time making LLM's more productive and useful instead.

LLMs may become more productive/ accurate/ useful, but they're not self-tasking or independent.

> I think people need to stop thinking of themselves as computer programmers and start thinking of themselves as _engineers_. Your job isn't writing programs, your job is _using the technology you have available to solve problems_.

There is a progression of skill required to master any profession, starting with fundamentals, and progressing and developing until you are an expert/ senior at that profession. How is a senior sw dev supposed to become that without writing code? Just reading LLM code and bugfixing isn't the same level or kind of experience. You're going to have devs who can't code by themselves, and that's a bad place to be in.

There are already too many people in IT using tools that they don't understand the workings of (and thus can't troubleshoot, can't replace, can't customize to their env, etc), and this will just exacerbate that x100.

MMW there is going to be a very bad skill deficit in IT in 20 years, which is going to cause an innovation deficit.