> my only job is to identify places where the current spec and the intended functionality differ and create a new spec to mitigate.

and to be able to do this efficiently or even "correctly", you'd need to have had mountains of experience evaluating an implementation, and be able to imagine the consequences of that implementation against the desired outcome.

Doing this requires experience that would get eroded by the use of an LLM. It's very similar to higher level maths (stuff like calculus) being much more difficult if you had poor arithmetic/algebra skills.

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CuriouslyC 5 days ago | parent [-]

Would that experience get eroded though? LLMs let me perform experiments (including architecture/system level) quickly, and build stress test/benchmark/etc harnesses quickly to evaluate those experiments, so in the time you can build human intuition with one experiment I've done 10. I build less intuition from each experiment, but I'm building broader intuition, and if I choose a bad experiment it's a small cost, but choosing a bad experiment and performing it manually is brutal.

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jplusequalt 5 days ago | parent [-]

>Would that experience get eroded though?

Yes. If you stop doing something, you get worse at it. There is literally no exception to this that I'm aware of. In the future where everyone is dependent on ever larger amounts of code, the possibility that nobody will be equipped to write/debug that code should scare you.

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CuriouslyC 5 days ago | parent [-]

The amount of weightlifting a strength athlete needs to do to stay near their peak (but outside medal range) is ~15% of a full training workload. People can play instruments once a month and still be exceptional once the pathways are set down. Are you getting slightly worse at direct code jockeying? Sure, but not a lot, and you're getting superpowers in exchange.

	▲	jplusequalt 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		>and you're getting superpowers in exchange The superpower you speak of is to become a product manager, and lose out on the fun of problem solving. If that's the future of tech, I want nothing to do with it.
	▲	jplusequalt 5 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Both of these examples have much more to do with muscle memory than critical thinking.