Lots of software engineers were just stack overflow copy pasters. No offense, it’s also a good way to learn, I’ve also done my fair share of stupid programming, but let’s not pretend the value to humankind was huge there

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ShinyLeftPad 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Sure, now when they are LLM copy-pasters things are going to suddenly improve

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ttoinou 4 hours ago | parent [-]

With AI LLM, the power of smart copy pasting is now also in the hands of non-geeky people. And also more senior developers can spin up and manage dozens of juniors via agentic AI

Juniors now need to be more skilled than before

	▲	ShinyLeftPad 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> the power of smart copy pasting is now also in the hands of non-geeky people Why? they didn't know how to copy before or something? > spin up and manage dozens of juniors Let's not call it a "junior" if one trigger word deep in the filesystem can make it forget it's a programmer and start building Minecraft castles. Your comparison is unfair to anyone with even 1 week of programming experience.

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sublinear 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Lots of people are now writing much worse code with AI. I'm not sure what you're saying other than "experience is valuable".

	▲	ttoinou 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If it's prototypes or throwaway scripts, then it's fine and it's still valuable experience