I enjoyed reading this. Yegge is always a must read.
Relatively little of what I do involves actually writing code these days. Far more time is spent understanding the problem, documenting, planning, building consensus, and other things.
Will LLMs impact the way I write code? Yes. They already have. It isn't always right and needs some hand holding, but it greatly accelerates things. Like having a pair programmer that never gets tired and has all the libraries memorized. It is both wonderful and depressing depending on what I am working on. I fear that it will completely remove a large source of joy in my professional life.
I'm more excited about how LLMs will impact the other areas. I can't wait to feed in some pile of documents from vendors, transcripts from meetings with clients, NIST white papers, and other similar things and have the model summarize all that crap in a coherent way for me. Soon I hope.
Also, at the rate things are going, I wonder if I will need to switch careers. And if so, to what?
Relatively little of what I do involves actually writing code these days. Far more time is spent understanding the problem, documenting, planning, building consensus, and other things.
Will LLMs impact the way I write code? Yes. They already have. It isn't always right and needs some hand holding, but it greatly accelerates things. Like having a pair programmer that never gets tired and has all the libraries memorized. It is both wonderful and depressing depending on what I am working on. I fear that it will completely remove a large source of joy in my professional life.
I'm more excited about how LLMs will impact the other areas. I can't wait to feed in some pile of documents from vendors, transcripts from meetings with clients, NIST white papers, and other similar things and have the model summarize all that crap in a coherent way for me. Soon I hope.
Also, at the rate things are going, I wonder if I will need to switch careers. And if so, to what?