alt Hacker NewsI disagree with the author. I think as LLMs get better at coding it will be more likely that that fewer devs will be required to keep systems running and progressing, the bottleneck at my company is already new revenue generating ideas. We've seen a roughly 30% increase in speed of new features, so the same number of devs are building a lot quicker. I expect that to continue to increase. I also see a lot of Devs simply trusting that the code is correct, they are losing touch with the code.
I don't think I would encourage my kids to get involved with programming, instead I would encourage them to become entrepreneurs who might use some coding.
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> increase in speed of new features
But who will maintain those features going forward?
> I also see a lot of Devs simply trusting that the code is correct, they are losing touch with the code.
My worry is that developers can't outsource their understanding to AI forever. It's a lot of risk for companies to be accumulating code faster than developers can understand them.
I think people who understand how computers and software work will be better positioned to generate those new ideas.
> I also see a lot of Devs simply trusting that the code is correct, they are losing touch with the code
It'll be interesting to see if this is sustainable. I could see it going both ways, and I honestly don't know which is most likely.
There can't really be valuable ideas that are quick to implement with few programmers.
Well, if there are, I know what I'll do over the next long weekend...
As the number of programmers decrease, the value of computer related ideas decrease.
It could be that because we can rapidly generate customized programs that the dedicated software industry shrinks, but companies might stop buying/licensing software and instead bring more software engineers in house.
That's what I'm hoping at least.