Comment by spicyusername
1 day ago
Its true we will lose the skills, but so far the LLMs are more than picking up the slack when wielded competently.
They _regularly_ go above and beyond when troubleshooting and frequently in 1/2 - 1/1000th of the time.
I remember spending entire days troubleshooting in the before times. Now it's like 30 minutes, tops, on literally any issue.
This is what progress looks like. We used to do a thing and now we don't.
> when wielded competently.
And what happens when the competency drains away?
That's what everyone's learning to do now, that is the skill that people will be improving.
I still remember the "Visual" craze of the 90s when everybody was going to be able to make applications without writing code.
Visual Basic 6 wasn't even too esoteric, it could have happened already if it was a thing.
Who is going to teach programmers to wield AI competently?
That's what everyone's learning to do now, that is the skill that people will be improving.