I loved learning Computer Engineering in college because it de-mystified the black box that was the PC I used growing up. I learned how it worked holistically, from physics to logic gates to processing units to kernels/operating systems to networking/applications.

It's sad to think we may be going backwards and introducing more black boxes, our own apps.

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h4ch1 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I personally don't "hate" LLMs but I see the pattern of their usage as slightly alarming; but at the same time I see the appeal of it.

Offloading your thinking, typing all the garbled thoughts in your head with respect to a problem in a prompt and getting a coherent, tailored solution in almost an instant. A superpowered crutch that helps you coast through tiring work.

That crutch soon transforms into dependence and before you know it you start saying things like "Once you vibe code, you don't look at the code".

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samiv 4 hours ago | parent [-]

And before you realize you're nothing more but a prompter ready to be displaced by someone cheaper.

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Quothling 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I think a lot of people, regardless of whether they vibe code or not are going to be replaced by a cheaper sollution. A lot of software that would've required programmers before can now be created by tech savy employees in their respective fields. Sure it'll suck, but it's not like that matters for a lot of software. Software Engineering and Computer Science aren't going away, but I suspect a lot of programming is.

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blauditore 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Ah yes, like no-code programming in the past, or what was it called again?

	▲	falcor84 42 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It's called Excel, and there's probably more logic written in it driving the world economy than in all the rest of the programming languages combined.