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Comment by enraged_camel

9 hours ago

FWIW: The highest paid devs I know excel at 2, and aren't even that good at 1.

Complement: I know many devs who are exceptional at 1 (writing code), and 2 (contextual thinking) never even occurs to them. They will happily implement whatever they are told, without ever thinking to ask "why am I being asked to implement this?" or "is this actually solving the problem?"

I guess that somewhat describes me - and guess what, that also transfers to "should we even throw AI at that specific problem, or are there other solutions?". Early curiousity in figuring out the limits of LLMs now is turning into revenue by customers with problems that didn't exist a few years ago at all - which currently is quite an exciting field to work in as a lot of things just don't have pre-established solutions yet.

It's a similar level of excitement as when we started doing devops stuff before devops even was a thing (which has been one of our main things for a very long time now).