@cadey I don't know, personally I feel quite safe. I have been doing my job for about 20 years, and I have about 20 years until retirement. I have not seen enough advances in 20 years to make me feel another 20 years will make me obsolete.

@cadey For people in earlier stages- say people who are 18 today and about to choose a University degree... I am not so certain. I have some perspective about the last 40 years of coding, and I still think in 40 years we have not made great strides in automating complex programming, but it's harder to tell.

@yo the text is a mildly edited version of the content of the video

@cadey oh, then my answer might apply, but I'll watch it anyway

@cadey (And to be clear, the "ugh" was directed at me, for failing to realize there was a video!)

@cadey Yeah, the text was pretty accurate. I don't know, we haven't solved CRUDs in... how many years of writing CRUD apps? I have not seen LLMs automating CRUD.

My metaphor is that LLMs are good at "creating stuff that *looks* like X". So I'm concerned about, say, creating illustrations, which is really "creating a picture that looks like X".

@cadey But creating source code that looks like the solution to problem X (which LLMs are pretty good at doing!) is not creating source that solves problem X.

I do think they're capable at interpolating SO answers into a solution, but normally I have to do a lot of stuff which I cannot do by interpolating from SO answers.