Comment by 3vidence
6 hours ago
I wonder if that's only really true for "pre-LLM" engineers though. If all you know is prompting maybe there's not a higher quality with more focused that can really be achieved.
It might just all meld into a mediocre soup of features.
To be clear not against AI assisted coding, think it can work pretty great but thinking about the implications for future engineers.
>If all you know is prompting maybe there's not a higher quality with more focused that can really be achieved.
That's true of any particular individual but not for a company that can decide to hire someone who can do more than prompting.
>It might just all meld into a mediocre soup of features
I don't think the relative economics have changed. Mediocre makes sense for a lot of software categories because not everyone competes on software quality.
But in other areas software quality makes a difference it will continue to make a difference. It's not a question of tools.