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Madmallardtoday at 6:56 AM0 repliesview on HN

Why would it?

The ability to accurately describe what you want with all constraints managed and with proactive design is the actual skill. Not programming. The day PMs can do that and have LLMs that can code to that, is the day software engineers en masse will disappear. But that day is likely never.

The non-technical people I've ever worked for were hopelessly terrible at attention to detail. They're hiring me primarily for that anyway.