Comment by wewewedxfgdf
2 hours ago
"The hard part of software engineering was never writing the code."
Again, are we still on this ridiculous concept. I stopped reading at that sentence.
Is that going to be the revisionist future that the industry tells itself - ""one day, LLMs came along and suddenly computers could program themselves, and it was an absolute revolution, but it made no difference at all to anything because "The hard part of software engineering was never writing the code." so people stopped using LLMs because of that. And that's how LLM's came to an end after being a short trend.""
A great article yesterday about this very concept: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222189
The hard part was the rote memorization of leetcode challenges and then learning to pattern match to the particular problem in a 5 minute technical interview.
The second part was that the test was being administered by a gatekeeper who was hired before those practices were put in place.
The 3rd was what? Amazon or Netflix burning your ass out because they are anti-human companies?