▲ | aaronbrethorst 3 days ago | |
I worked on visual studio at Microsoft 20 years ago, and once had the opportunity to go to a trade show to represent the company. While I was manning a booth, this software developer came up to me and said VS had gotten too good at code generation to automate data access, and we should cut it out because that was the vast majority of what he did. I thought he was joking, but no, he was totally serious. I said something to him about how those tools were saving him from having to do boring, repetitive work so that he could focus on higher value, more interesting development, instead, but he wasn’t having it. I think about him quite often, especially these days. I wonder if he’s still programming, and what he thinks about LLMs |