Comment by jack_pp
18 days ago
If you already are an engineer it frees you up to be an architect.
If you aren't, then sure you'll be a PM with a lackluster team of engineers.
LLMs can engineer small well defined functions / scripts rather well in my experience. Of course it helps to be able to understand what it outputs and prod it to engineer it just the way you want it. Still faster than me writing it from scratch, most of the time. And even if it's the same time as me doing it from scratch it feels easier so I can do more without getting tired.
And if you are already an architect - you are likely planning to start a business
It just feels like AI upskills everyone a little.
I don't think it is automatically accurate. I would be curious to learn how you arrived at that conclusion. What I seem to be seeing is that actual impact depends heavily on the person involved. Curious people dig in and even when lulled into copy/paste, they can usually snap out of it. But what do we do about those, who just want an answer, any answer..