alt Hacker News> Because a machine can never take accountability.
A business leader can though.
> Compared to another software engineer who directed prompts to expand the system and generate extra revenue streams.
I think you're missing the point. Why can't an LLM advance sufficiently to be a REAL senior software engineer that a business person/product manager is prompting instead of YOU, a software engineer? Why are YOU specifically needed if an LLM can do a better job of it than you? I can't believe people are so naive to not see what the endgame is: getting rid of those primadonna software engineers that the C-suite and managers have nothing but contempt for.
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why would it be a manager? hire a cheap intern to be the scapegoat, if the job market is bad enough. no reason for liability to fall on the suits
You can say this about every single role.
Why can't VCs feed your pitch deck into an AI and get a business they own 100%?
If the only thing you're paying for is compute time...
Some.people are claiming it's about taste. Why can't an AI learn taste?
> A business leader can though.
If a 'business leader' is prompting out software through their agents, ensuring it works, maintaining it, and taking accountability... they're also a software engineer
These titles are mostly semantics