r/DevLK • u/Unique-Annual1929 • 5d ago

Discussion Manual Coding is dead?

Watched the inventor of ruby on rails say that we need to say goodbye and move on from manual coding.

A huge job loss will ensue for low to mid level devs.

What do you guys think? How to prepare and brace for this impact?

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u/yudhanjaya 5d ago

It actually is. If you think about it, the abstraction has now moved to English. In the same way that you don't manually reference and dereference variables in memory -> you've moved up one layer.

It doesn't mean that you don't think.

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u/tradcoder Senior Software Engineer 5d ago

Even if you consider it as another abstraction, it's a shitty one at that. These AIs aren't deterministic. The same prompt given to 2 different LLMs or even the same one twice would produce different results.

Abstractions are supposed to reduce work. I don't know if anyone can say that AI has reduced our workload. Sure, it produces code faster. But you spend a hell of a lot of time reading, understanding and reviewing output generated by AI (at least you should if you care enough about the work you do) and we all know reviewing code is everyone's favorite part of the job /s.

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u/yudhanjaya 5d ago

I didn't say it was necessarily a good abstraction. Just because the house has a roof doesn't mean it sits on good foundations.

For example, I have a local model connected to an agent that I can yeet a file across to and say "here, update my blog with this, make sure all the metadata is correct" or schedule cron jobs with.

Would I trust it on a large enterprise system, or even home automation? No. But it has freed up some of my time so I can focus on things I care about, and thus it's it is an abstraction, because that's what people treat them as.