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cduzztoday at 8:20 PM0 repliesview on HN

I'm going to mix my metaphors a bit here...

There's the saying "Any idiot can build a bridge; it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands."

To put this another way, any idiotic LLM can write code. It takes a person with domain experience to understand what code to write, rewrite, or not write.

I've seen lots of organizations hollow out their internal competence in favor of outsourcing the skills. LLMs are the ultimate expression of that. There are people who say "you need to have people in your organization who understand how things work because they're the ones who solve problems!" and there are other people who say "focus on your core competencies! These problems you're worried about aren't your core competencies, so get rid of those experts, they're expensive and annoying; we can just sign a contract with an organization that'll know things for us."

At some point we all will identify exactly how much "seed corn" you need for the next season. We'll figure that out because we're starving, but at least we'll all know.