Comment by taylorius
1 day ago
Tech people like it because it isn't good enough to completely replace them yet. The sophisticated, coherent architecture of a well designed system is (for now) still beyond the LLMs, so for tech people, it's still just a wonderful tool. But give it another year, and the worm will turn.
lumberjacks didn't go away when chainsaws were invented; demand for wood rose to meet the falling cost of wood and lumberjacks kept cutting down trees. don't see why it won't be any different for programmers.
But the chainsaws were never developed to the point that the head of wood supplies could ask them to go and chop some trees down by themselves.
In the US, there were entire cities with essentially just lumberjacks. In other words, there used to be a LOT more lumberjacks than there are today, and they were a lot better paid.
Now there are a LOT of software engineers.
What's the equivalent of deforestation in that analogy?