alt Hacker News"paradigm shift"
A paradigm shift is an earth shattering, very important change - a complete change in thinking etc. LLMs are not that. They are simply some pretty new tools. Nice tools but they will whip off your metaphorical thumb just as quickly as a miss-used table saw.
You'll note that you mention "engineers are offloading": that's not a paradigm shift. That's a bunch of engineers discovering a better slide rule.
I'm old enough to remember moving on from slide rules (I still have mine) through calculators (ditto) to using fag packets and napkins for their real intended purpose.
The drill-driver also took engineering by storm but no-one ever used the term paradigm shift (to be fair, I don't think it was invented at the time and I can't be arsed to look it up).
I would argue LLMs are possibly the largest paradigm shift the world has ever seen, and we are only at the beginning. The entire scaffolding and structure of programming is in the process of changing — coding has moved to orchestration and testing and governance of how to manage and productionalize code that has surpassed the capacity of human review.
If this sounds melodramatic it’s likely that it hasn’t fully taken root where you are yet.
I see opinions split on like “it’s just a dirty untrustworthy tool that is making our lives and the world a living hell” and “this is the second coming of Christ”. The reality is that right now we lie on that first part of the spectrum, but I am looking over the hill and seeing 4 horses and they are stampeding this way