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Comment by maccard

17 hours ago

But a modern drill absolutely 100% removes the need for a brace and bit. An LLM doesn't replace any existing tools.

From what I've heard for many devs it replaced an IDE... I still use one myself, but I've a lot of people don't anymore.

  • Basically IDE free since May 2025. I actually reinstalled vscode when setting up a new machine and I think I've launched it twice?

    cc -> local automated testing -> github -> PR -> heavy integration tests -> review (github ui, +/-) -> manual test locally -> merge -> deploy -> manual test remotely -> synthetic user testing -> repeat

    • But what about navigating the code by the call stack? I didn't know that GitHub has a way to do that. Or maybe I'm probably coming across as being dumb enough to be talking about still trying to have a mental model of what calls what.

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I think we will see very limited human displacement - it'll be in narrow places where it makes sense. Much of it will just be augmentation.