| ▲ | ghm2199 7 hours ago | |
I would call it code-plumber. It's like a plumber who are today socio-economocally very distinct from architects, civil and structural engineers. They will have very narrow to zero understanding — don't need it to fix — of shear forces, navier stokes. They will command high rates if labor is limited(a plumber in Indonesia will commande lower ppp adjusted hourly rates than America). CS education become a subset of applied math since graduate hiring of code-plumber will require a narrower certificate to fix an AI system — which works very much like how plumber working to fix a building leak is different from a person fixing a water pipe burst under a road. A few AI systems will become dominant, That should be a mix of Anthropics and your Googles. They will hire code plumbers to plumb together all the things they provide. You don't have to use much brain at all as a code-plumber. You become a remote journeyman logging in and plumbing with given tools, making sure there is low back pressure(a term where load on future plumbers interacting/fixing with ai decreases) and the like. | ||
| ▲ | 0xcafefood 6 hours ago | parent [-] | |
I can't tell if yourr comparison to plumbers who don't understand theory (Navier-Stokes) is supposed to apply to "ape coders" who write code by hand or to "vibe coders" who outsource their understanding. | ||