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zgs | 2 years ago

As a career programmer, I'm not in the least concerned that LLMs will replace me. At least not in the near to mid term future. The key is to have skills that LLMs aren't good at replicating. Writing secure code, numerically stable code, performance optimised code, resource tight code....

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Terr_|2 years ago

Be able to read code, and tell whether the code is something subtly insane hallucinated by an LLM, and then fix the insanity. :p

There is some overlap there with code made by humans, when it involves terrible outsourcing and/or language-barriers, but otherwise you can usually ask the human author questions when reviewing it.