alt Hacker NewsI think this is one of the key takes right now. I too have similar experience.
Which way is it going to go?
i) “Seniors” also get superseded by even more capable models that can do all of the things which currently require experience.
ii) Linguistics become the new higher order abstraction (English is the new high-level programming language) _but_ there are different / orthogonal ways of approaching software development than the way we do things now — which “juniors” become more adept at more quickly.
There's also iii) people realize that if the LLM needs that much babysitting, it doesn't actually add value. So they don't use it very much because it is too limited as a tool.