2026-10-31 12:02 UTC
I’ll comment here, rather than the other discussion we were having.
To answer your question here, you don’t. Here’s why:
Do you farm everything you eat? Do you weave the textiles that make your clothes? Do you smith the shoes that go on your horse? Do you form the bricks that made your house yourself? Do you harvest fire wood to cook your food? Do you tan leather to make belts and shoes? Do you
No. And why? Because technological improvements made the artisinal version of that work unnecessary to be largely done by artisans. Not that we don’t still have artisans doing these things. And not that we have every single article of clothing on Earth made by machines.
Coders are in the same plight that cobblers were in 100+ years ago. And I’ve been to a cobbler in the last year! But only because I really love this one pair of great boots that can be resoled. I don’t go there for running shoes and flip flops.
The part that feels like betrayal to coders is that the LLMs came from their own kind.
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@victorz@lemmy.world 2026-10-31 17:56
I don’t farm what I eat, but the people that do have to have that knowledge of how to do that. That’s the difference here. LLMs are creating “developers” that need to have the knowledge to be able to audit the code produced, but they won’t have that knowledge. That is the problem. Not the “paradigm shift”.