alt Hacker News> Almost anyone can prompt an LLM to generate a thousand-line patch and submit it for code review. That’s no longer valuable. What’s valuable is contributing code that is proven to work.
That's really not a great development for us. If our main point is now reduced to accountability over the result with barely any involvement in the implementation - that's very little moat and doesn't command a high salary. Either we provide real value or we don't ...and from that essay I think it's not totally clear what the value is - it seems like every QA, junior SWE or even product manager can now do the job of prompting and checking the output.
The value is being better at it than any QA or product manager.
Experienced software engineers have such a huge edge over everyone else with this stuff.
If your product manager doesn't understand what a CORS header is good luck having them produce a change that requires cross-domain fetch() call... and first they'll have to know what a "cross-doman fetch() call" means.
And sure they could ask an LLM about that, but they still need the vocabulary and domain knowledge to get to that question.