alt Hacker NewsNo you’re not. The “how” is your job to understand, and if you don’t you’ll end up like the devs in the article.
We as an industry have been able to offload a lot of “how” via deterministic systems built by humans with expert understanding. LLMs give you the illusion of this.
No in my case the “how” is
1. I spoke to sales to find out about the customer
2. I read every line of the contract (SOW)
3. I did the initial requirements gathering over a couple of days with the client - or maybe up to 3 weeks
3. I designed every single bit of AWS architecture and code
4. I did the design review with the client
5. I led the customer acceptance testing
> We as an industry have been able to offload a lot of “how” via deterministic systems built by humans with expert understanding. LLMs
I assure you the mid level developers or god forbid foreign contractors were not “experts” with 30 years of coding experience and at the time 8 years of pre LLM AWS experience. It’s been well over a decade - ironically before LLMs - that my responsibility was only for code I wrote with my own two hands