Comment by zizee
6 days ago
The vast majority of people cannot do the structured thinking to model the real world in a fashion that a computer can understand. That is a key attribute of a good dev. If someone can do this, and describe it well enough to a LLM, they are a dev. It's not devs that will be taken out of the loop, unless you define a dev as someone who is just a translator between human language and machine code.
The LLM + agentic framework supplements many core dev skills including sporadic habits of tirelessly testing things, spec-driven development (thinking what you’re gonna make before you do), and debugging.
Some devs may have all of these, some may lack several.
I certainly benefit from having a better overview while vibe-coding: I don’t get lost in some rabbit-hole trying to optimise something that is good enough, and my most important tasks are always well-defined before I start.