alt Hacker NewsThis article is a coping mechanism. What it's really saying is this:
"The thing that LLMs are taking over is easy, we humans still have agency over the hard part."
That's what he's trying to say, and I can tell you, this is not true. Programming was the hard part. That's why we got paid so much. It's the easy jobs that are immune to AI: Gardening, construction work, blue collar jobs,... etc.
Mind you not easy in the sense that the work isn't hard, but easy in the sense that anyone can do it. Those are the jobs that are ironically safe.
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Anyone can do construction, blue collar jobs? That hasn't been my experience with contractors.
Do you think someone un fammilar with coding can sit down with one of these agents that write software and end up with a running phone app?
Programming is -relatively- the easy part.
Getting it right is much harder.
Knowing what to build is way harder.
Debugging is hard.
Dotting all the i's and crossing all the t's to get your product to ship can be hard.
Maintenance and support is hard, especially if the product is riddled with problems, but also just due to the passage of time.
Dealing with tech debt is hard.
Communicating is hard.