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Comment by gtowey

4 hours ago

In my 20+ years in the tech industry, the most important thing I have learned is that writing code is the least significant part of being a software engineer.

You write code once, but then it's modified endlessly. Supporting and using and improving the code is the majority of the work. LLMs are terrible for that. They tend to write code that isnt easy to read and modify. They don't plan for future use cases. They often paint themselves into a corner with successive modifications, and lose context as the project grows.

Don't worry about your job just yet. We are a long long way from replacing people.