No, he is correct. LLMs have much larger working memories for the kind of details you work with in programming tasks. You are at an objective cognitive deficit by not taking advantage of this. Everybody knows what he means by left behind. When you program, you do so with a goal in mind, and you will not be able to reach that goal as quickly without LLMs. You will be outcompeted by those who use them, and this means that opportunities to contribute professionally, in open source, etc. will be closed to you.

This is the future. Adapt or die.

> This is the future. Adapt or die.

I'm curious about what adaptation you have in mind.

You use LLMs to write specific functions? The person who uses it in an agent loop will leave you behind to die.

You use LLMs in an agent loop? The person who uses LLMs to supervise loops will leave you behind to die.

You use LLMS to supervise agent loops? The person who uses LLMs to determine product offering and automatically start supervision on producing the product will leave you behind to die.

You use LLMs to determine product offering and kick off the supervision? The person who uses LLMs to clone your product without the initial product research will leave you behind to die.

You use LLMs to clone products gaining traction? The person who runs a cluster 100x the size of yours will leave you behind to die.

I am trying to understand where you think you fit in, in this Brave New World.

You obviously think that you're adapting, but if you're correct, anything you do now can be replaced by an LLM in the near future.

Just where were you going with "Adapt or die".

I use the 1M token opus claude for two days to build a dashboard and it forgets how to run the build script it wrote at the start of the project.

Man can it put together a react app lickety split, though

Exactly, it's pretty obvious, and definitely as you sail, not aggressive (someone melts a little too easily) The comment was naive to the point of denial.

This is the future. Adapt or die.

The reality is that everyone will be replaced by a cheaper alternative someday, with LLMs or not. If you depend on LLMs more and more to do your work and the costs of keeping your tokens increases, your 'left behind' co-workers will still be fine.