The job of software developer is dead. You might still be coding, but the profession as you knew it is gone.
  • smiletolerantly@awful.systems
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    23 days ago

    Lmao. Lmfao, even.

    Here, I’m gonna save you some time and summarize the article for you:

    • everyone is talking about how good LLMs are [citation missing], but they’re missing the point!
    • because really, we’re already so much further ahead! There be magic tools out there!
    • wait, you want to know which ones? Uuuuh sorry, the people building then are keeping them a secret…
    • …because they are just THAT FRIGHTENINGLY GOOD! [citation missing]
    • seriously, I used one of them to build a 30k/month product in 2 hours with zero coding!
    • I mean… A subset at least. Oh I also did not do any review, so no idea just how badly fucked it is. Ah, and I guess the price tag comes from the existing reputation and legal guarantees provided by the original tool, which obviously I also couldn’t replicate.
    • but worry not! I’m sure I’d be able to build the full tool in DAYS!
    • I won’t though. Even though it could TOTALLY make me 30k per month per user. Totally.
    • instead, I’ll PROVE to you JUST HOW GOOD these SECRET TOOLS are! Checkout this GitHub repo!
    • …ah, no, sorry, I misspoke. I’ll obviously NOT be using the secret, but TOTALLY REAL [citation missing] tools that this entire article is about. For some reason. They’re totally real though bro. Trust me bro. I’m sure one more data-center will fix it bro. Just need to prompt right bro. Like bro, people don’t realize how gooooooood LLMs are bro. I swear bro. My prompts are so good I need to keep them secret because it’s SCARY bro. Bro.

    Ahem. Maybe I editorialized a tiny bit. Not much though, trust me bro.

  • calliope@retrolemmy.com
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    24 days ago

    The authors of these articles always make it crystal clear how inexperienced they are.

    The role has transformed. Engineers are no longer writing software — they’re designing higher-order systems.

    Whoa you don’t say?! We’ve only been doing that for thirty years now. Glad you finally noticed.

    You know what the major problem has been for the past couple decades of my programming career? Hint: it wasn’t writing the code.

    Leave it to a finance bro to think everything he does is “DiSrUpTiNg.” What year is it?