Comment by egl2020
1 month ago
This is looking at the wrong end of the telescope. The arc has been to move computing closer to more and more end users. In the 1960's, FORTRAN enabled scientists and engineers to implement solutions without knowing much about the underlying computer. Thompson and Ritchie got a PDP11 by promising to make a text processing system for patent applications. Many years later desktop PC's and programs like VisiCalc and PageMaker opened up computing to many more users. The list goes on and on. With this movement, developer jobs disappeared or changed.
I keep saying the real advancement by LLMs isn't for professional programmers, but for every job that is programming adjacent. Every biologist writing code to do analysis. Every test engineer interfacing with test results and graphing results. (eg all the instruments from cold weather testing) Anyone that's figured out you can glue Jira to a local LLM and then have voice command Jira. Etc.