Comment by twodave
5 months ago
I’m not anti-AI; I use it every day. But I also think all this hand-wringing is overblown and unbalanced. LLMs, because of what they are, will never replace a thoughtful engineer. If you’re writing code for a living at the level of an LLM then your job was probably already expendable before LLMs showed up.
except you know, you had a job. and coming out of college could get one… if you were graduating right now in compsci you’ll find a wasteland with no end in sight…
You’re assuming a lot about me that isn’t true, but let’s just say we can’t really know, can we? And I think it’s a bit reductionist to attribute the current job market to LLMs. The market started to suck long before LLMs became useful.
my apologies, I did not mean you as YOU, just general “you”…
and while we can’t know we can also… kind of know or look at data etc…
IntuitionLabs, “AI’s Impact on Graduate Jobs: A 2025 Data Analysis” (2025) -
https://intuitionlabs.ai/pdfs/ai-s-impact-on-graduate-jobs-a...
Indeed Hiring Lab, “AI at Work Report 2025: How GenAI is Rewiring the DNA of Jobs” (September 2025) -
https://www.hiringlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Indeed-...
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