I read that Meta is tasking all engineers with figuring out how they got owned by deepseek. Couldn't they just have asked an llm instead? After their claim of replacing all of us...
I'm not too worried. If anything we're the last generation that knows how to debug and work through issues.
> If anything we're the last generation that knows how to debug and work through issues.
I suspect that comment might soon feel like saying "not too worried about assembly line robots, we're the only ones who know how to screw on the lug nuts when they pop off"
I don't even see the irony in the comparison to be honest, being the assembly line robot controller and repairman is quite literally a better job than doing what the robot does by hand.
If you're working in a modern manufacturing business the fact that you do your work with the aid of robots is hardly a sign of despair
I don't claim it's a sign of despair. Rather, it's a boots-dug-in belief that one does is special and cannot be done autonomously. I think it's wholly natural. Work, time, education ... these operate like sunk costs in our brains.
I think what we're all learning in real-time is that human technology is perpetually aimed at replacing itself and we may soon see the largest such example of human utility displacement.
Heh, yeah. But the llm in this instance only wrote 99% after the author guided it and prompted over and over again and even guided it how to start certain lines. I can do that. But can a beginner ever get to that level when not having that underlying knowledge?
Yep, and we still need COBOL programmers too. Your job as a technologist is to keep up with technology and use the best tools for the job to increase efficiency. If you don’t do this you will be left behind or you will be relegated to an esoteric job no one wants.
I briefly looked into this 10 years ago since people kept saying it. There is no demand for COBOL programmers, and the pay is far below industry average. [0]
My poor baby boy Prolog... it's only down there because people are irrationally afraid of it :(
And most are too focused on learning whatever slop the industry wants them to learn, so they don't even know that it exists. We need 500 different object oriented languages to do web applications after all. Can't be bothered with learning a new paradigm if it doesn't pay the bills!
It's the most intuitive language I've ever learned and it has forever changed the way I think about problem solving. It's just logic, so it translates naturally from thought to code. I can go to a wikipedia page on some topic I barely know and write down all true statements on that page. Then I can run queries and discover stuff I didn't know.
That's how I learned music theory, how scales and chords work, how to identify the key of a melody... You can't do that as easily and concisely in any other language.
One day, LLM developers will finally open a book about AI and realize that this is what they've been missing all along.
A fair amount has been written on how to debug things, so it's not like the next generation can't learn it by also asking the AI (maybe learn it more slowly if 'learning with AI' is found to be slower)
I'm not too worried. If anything we're the last generation that knows how to debug and work through issues.