Comment by sevensor
2 months ago
> Our careers depend on LLMs not being able to solve complex problems so that we don’t risk/fear losing our careers
I think both this sentiment and the article are on the same wrong track, which is to see programming as solving well defined problems. The way I see it, the job is mostly about taking ill defined needs and turning them into well defined problems. The rest is just writing code. From this perspective, whether LLM prompting can replace writing code is only marginally relevant. It’s automating the easy part.
Sounds like philosophers will be the new programmers if playing around with language and definitions is all that will be left.
Sure, if writing code is applied math, deciding what needs to be written is applied philosophy. I don’t think we give ourselves enough credit for applied philosophy.