alt Hacker NewsWhen your senior developers retire, and if the LLMs haven't caught up to their level by that time, where do you think new senior developers will come from?
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Thats a tragedy of the commons problem. But not my problem. I’m judged as a senior+ by meeting my quarterly and at most yearly goals and strategy.
No current manager (I’m not one) is incentivized to care.
MBA! lol
We've actually been here before with higher languages. Assembly is actually a higher language, performance is much worse than machine code. It cant really self modify or do code generation. To squeeze all of the wine from the rock you do need 100 times more effort. C is luxurious compared to assembly. Python is even more productive. We don't use html/css/javascript because it is so fast, it's gawd aweful slow. I can however get something up and available to the world in less than a minute.
Then we pretend to be optimizing our websites for performance but we have no idea what code is triggered by our instructions. If the button responds in 0.2 seconds we are good. You know, the time it takes for the cpu to do 1-2 trillion instructions?
We already are MBA's!
The response I get offline is that there's millions of seniors right now that can last a couple decades.