| ▲ | flohofwoe 6 hours ago | |
Different words for the same thing. The idea that "coding" is just turning a spec into source code without any engineering decisions to be made was always laughable, for that to happen the spec would need to be as detailed as the source code (of course the whole idea that spec and code are separate things doesn't make a lot of sense). | ||
| ▲ | ben_w 6 hours ago | parent [-] | |
LLMs even a version number or two ago can write all the code I've ever been paid to write in the last 20 years; but they are not, I think, yet competent enough to be able to handle the project planning and self-QA I was doing even in my first 6 months of my first job after graduating. That's not a boast, I don't think I was particularly good at that back then, e.g. I didn't really get how to think about automated tests until much later. It's just to say that no, coding and software engineering are not the same thing. "Code Monkey" is a dead (or perhaps "undead") role now, but it wasn't always so. | ||