Post by @dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world

2026-10-29 20:57 UTC

Here’s the thing, though. Give it a generation (and in this industry, a “generation” is basically the amount of time it takes one class of grads to get through college, or possibly at the outside maybe two) and there will be no one left with the skillset required to effectively babysit the LLMs anymore. Everyone who used to have those skills but leaned on AI and stopped coding themselves will have let them atrophy, and the upcoming crop of junior developers won’t know how to do anything but prompt the chatbot. Maybe there are deeper, latent problems beeing embedded in the code-base through this process, but we can’t spot any although we are looking intently. It’s this right here. Nobody will be able to look intently, because no one will have the knowledge of what to look for anymore. You are able to effectively manage the stupid machine’s output because you actually know more or less what functional code looks like and how it works. Once that skill has been squeezed out of the industry it’s going to be utter chaos.

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@MrLLM@ani.social 2026-10-30 06:36

Almost a graduated here, here’s my small rant (kinda). For context: I rarely use LLMs cuz there’s no fun on vibe coding, not to mention the shit ton of problems its usage carries (economical, environmental, social, ethical, skills decline, etc) The other day I was in the classroom using my Actual Intelligence (AI) to do a python project, when a group of randoms came by and asked what I was doing, they were looking at me like if a was some sort of caveman, because apparently I’m one of the few guys that still codes by hand. Sometimes I feel bad for them, it’s depressing to see everyone getting stupider so quickly, but I can relate to that feeling of wanting to do absolutely nothing from day to day. In most of my classes, I’m the only one answering questions to the point that sometimes I get banned from answering (although I don’t know if it’s because everyone is kinda shy or if it’s truly because they don’t have an idea of what’s being talked about)

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