On: Nvidia CEO says "coding is a dying profession"

[Sytten]

Its not because most of the time spent is not coding. It is figuring out what the imprecise feature request is really about, how to integrate with this legacy system that Jeff maintains on the other side of the country, convince your boss to not spend money on this useless new AI shit thing, etc, etc.

[add-sub-mul-div → Sytten]

Yeah, coding is the easiest part of the job. And once you hit a certain level of mastery, interacting with an LLM will slow you down.

[Terr_ → Sytten]

Also, checking the essential sanity of code and if necessary making it more-sane.

LLMs may indeed end up replacing web-searching interns or bottom-bin outsourcing, with "code a real programmer has to review and probably rewrite".

However there's no reason to believe LLMs will gain a novel new ability to manage that second part just by making them bigger and bigger.