Comment by weatherlite
4 days ago
> So when should we start to be worried, as developers ?
I've been worrying ever since chatgpt 3 came out, it was shit at everything but it was amazing as well. And in the last 3 years the progress was incredible. I don't know if you "should" worry, worrying for the sake of it isn't helping much, but yes we should all be mentally prepared to the possibility we won't be able to make a living doing this X years from now. Could be 5, could be 10 , could be less than 5 even.
God, I’d love to once again be working at a company where coding speed mattered.
Meanwhile in non-tech Bigcos the slow part of everything isn’t writing the code, it’s sorting out access and keys and who you’re even supposed to be talking to, and figuring out WTF people even want to build (and no, they can’t just prompt an LLM to do it because they can’t articulate it well, and don’t have any concept of what various technologies can and cannot do).
The code is already like… 5% of the time, probably. Who gives a damn if that’s on average 2x as fast?
I agree that coding isn't all we do by if agentic A.I progresses far enough it can drastically reduce the amount of people you're supposed to talk to, figure out what they want to build etc. There'll be way fewer of those around - including some of us unfortunately.