[manofmanysmiles]

There are some people who still know these things, and are able to use LLMs far more effectively than those who do not.

I've seen the following prediction by a few people and am starting to agree with it: software development (and possibly most knowledge work) will become like farming. A relatively smaller number of people will do with large machines what previously took armies of people. There will always be some people exploring the cutting edge of thought, and feeding their insights into the machine, just how I image there are biochemists and soil biology experts who produce knowledge to inform decisions made by the people running large farming operations.

I imagine this will lead to profound shifts in the world that we can hardly predict. If we don't blow ourselves up, perhaps space exploration and colonization will become possible.

[gmueckl]

I think that tt's more likely at this point that we turn the depleting quantities of exploitable resources on this planet into more and more data centers and squander any remaining opportunity at space exploration/colonization at scale.

[William_BB]

If this happens to software development, this will happen to most mental jobs.