Comment by joquarky
19 days ago
> as a senior engineer, most of the stuff you do shouldn’t be stuff that an LLM is good at to begin with
Your use of the word "should" is pointing to some ideal that doesn't exist anymore.
In current actual reality, you do whatever your employer gives you to do, regardless of your job title.
If you have 40 years of broad development experience but your boss tells you to build more CRUD web apps or start looking for another job in the current ATS hell, then the choice whether to use coding agents seems obvious to me.
I think the point is that if you're building yet-another-CRUD web app, why aren't you abstracting more of it away already? It's not like we don't have the facilities for this in programming languages already.
The main issue with current LLM hypers is the complete unrealistic scenarios they come up with. When building a CRUD app, the most obvious solution is to use a framework to take care of the common use cases. And such framework will have loads of helpers and tools to speed up boilerplate.
Not everything can be abstracted away, jesus