The hard part about programming is never "coding." The hard part is always "coming up with a solution to the problem." LLMs aren't going to replace the latter, only the former. I'm happy about that.
If we're going to whine about stuff getting automated then we might as well (in increasing order of absurdity):
ditch checkout scanners and bring back the middle class skilled profession of "store clerk" who tallies up the price of the goods.
get rid of the machines that fill pastries with creme and manually inject creme into all our Twinkies.
go back to assembly line manufacturing by hand for vehicles
eliminate tractors and go back to planting fields by hand
Because the important thing is keeping people in jobs, right? At every single one of those things and more, people protested about job losses.
There will always be more things for people to do. Getting them out of the boring stuff that they don't like doing, while still getting that stuff done, frees them up to do something else. The disruption is always temporary.
There shouldn't be a discussion to revert the progression. (Environmental concerns by side)
The problem in the automation of simple tasks is the increasing complexity of the remaining ones. At some point cognitive load may be getting to big for some people to handle.
There should be a social debate about the implications of this problem.
True, and this will always open up doors for more things humans can do. I feel the fear in a lot of the articles about AI replacing this or that job, but people adapt and new jobs do come out of it. Also things evolve and adapt around the new changes.
"BUt tHiS TiMe it'S DIFfErEnt!" - every news outlet ever, which get more views and more revenue when people think there's impending doom, which also said the same thing about every other disruptive automation tech.
The hard part about programming is never "coding." The hard part is always "coming up with a solution to the problem." LLMs aren't going to replace the latter, only the former. I'm happy about that.
If we're going to whine about stuff getting automated then we might as well (in increasing order of absurdity):
ditch checkout scanners and bring back the middle class skilled profession of "store clerk" who tallies up the price of the goods.
get rid of the machines that fill pastries with creme and manually inject creme into all our Twinkies.
go back to assembly line manufacturing by hand for vehicles
eliminate tractors and go back to planting fields by hand
Because the important thing is keeping people in jobs, right? At every single one of those things and more, people protested about job losses.
There will always be more things for people to do. Getting them out of the boring stuff that they don't like doing, while still getting that stuff done, frees them up to do something else. The disruption is always temporary.
There shouldn't be a discussion to revert the progression. (Environmental concerns by side)
The problem in the automation of simple tasks is the increasing complexity of the remaining ones. At some point cognitive load may be getting to big for some people to handle.
There should be a social debate about the implications of this problem.
"LLMs aren't going to replace the latter" They will, just not yet
Everybody said that about "no code" but ironically all it did was increase the demand for developers.
True, and this will always open up doors for more things humans can do. I feel the fear in a lot of the articles about AI replacing this or that job, but people adapt and new jobs do come out of it. Also things evolve and adapt around the new changes.
"BUt tHiS TiMe it'S DIFfErEnt!" - every news outlet ever, which get more views and more revenue when people think there's impending doom, which also said the same thing about every other disruptive automation tech.
same opinion, cant wait when i tell some AI-IDE what i want to build to solve a problem and i dont manage implemetations details