kayo_20211030 an hour ago

> The developers who stand out will be the ones who understand the systems.

That has always been true. AI doesn't change it. It just rearranges some elements that come ahead of that understanding. The volume and velocity are challenges but the understanding and judgement is what separates the good and the great.

BTW: "systems" in my world include not just the technology components but also the humans who operate, adjust and manage all the pieces, and the processes that control it all.

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cyanydeez an hour ago | parent [-]

It is an interesting diametric inversion: before AI, you had people designing good code from the ground up for the love of the game and you had businesses cutting corner due to budgets.

Now you have AI infilitrating both sectors, and well.

Ok, so it's probably going to be the same problem. With AI, I can now explore more docs and more tests, and push out into the edge cases, all because I've got a local LLM and have no real worry about electricity costs.

Businesses on the other hand, will be addicted to LLMs and will have token budgets and will soon enough go back to just good enough software designs.

	▲	kayo_20211030 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I think so. Two traditional and _almost_ disjoint sets, the technology realm and the business realm, will start to (be forced to?) have much greater overlap. There have always been political battles along the boundary, but this upcoming one will be bloody and long. The current structures and control mechanisms will have to change appreciably for any of the promises of AI to be realized.
	▲	zer00eyz an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Im not sure thats why businesses are straying from more LLM use. Finding where AI is moving the needle has been hard, if not impossible. Because code, by it self has never moved the needle. It's the product, what the code does that moves the needle. Building the wrong thing, faster, is just a speed run to a legacy code base. That isnt your development teams fault.