Comment by avgDev
1 day ago
Nobody says it does. However, if I am solving big business problems and making enough to justify a private cook, why wouldn't I do that to optimize and focus on my area of expertise?
I don't want to be a code monkey. I want to talk to business people and come up with solutions. I don't care if LLM writes most of it or a junior dev...well I do LLM is better.
Ironic that the parent poster should use the phrase "code monkey" since most would likely agree being an "LLM prompt monkey" is an even lower rung on the ladder than that. The business people can surely find a LLM prompt monkey for much less salary than what a code monkey gets so I'm not sure anyone would want to embrace that future. In fact, if the AI gets good enough, the business people won't need the LLM prompters at all; they'll talk to the AI themselves.
Business people already talk to LLMs, and people who know how to code hate it.
I haven't written single line of code since Dec but I've been putting a lot of focus into systems design and making sure I understand how all the pieces of our system work together even if I don't know how the individual parts work.
The amount of times I hear my (fairly technical, mind you!) boss say "why can't we do X, Claude says it's simple" is pretty baffling, and my coworkers and him will have hours long debates about it.
This goes along in the hall of fame with the "how hard can it be", Turns out, if you want to do it right, more often than not, very hard.
From the way you're writing, you'll fit right in with the 'business people' since they dont have any clue half the time either.
The issue is that the business problem you're solving is the problem of producing food. Why should you be kept around as the middleman, instead of hiring the chef directly?
The same reason middle management is still around today.
AI has been a catastrophe for middle management jobs though
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> and come up with solutions.
Why? Can't the business people talk to LLMs and have it come up with solutions?
Because it is not that easy. I used LLMs daily, I still need to write code and debug.
My boss has his own work to do.
Sure, many do and fail. I wonder why?
Seems like the LLM has already impacted your reading comprehension. We're talking about learning here, not the overall value of LLMs.
I'm sorry to say but the business people don't want to talk to you, they want to replace you, that's what the LLM is for as far as they're concerned. Currently you're just filling the role of beta testing that replacement. The fact that you're so happy to throw away your fellow devs in the hopes of getting in bed with those people just makes this whole situation quite sad.
Maybe just get an MBA or something, I doubt its any safer from LLMs but thats clearly what you want to be doing
However, if I am solving big business problems and making enough to justify a private cook,
With the private cook, you're not cooking. If you "vibe", code, you're not coding.
And code review isn't coding, any more than a coach giving hints to an athlete, is an athlete.