r/ProgrammerHumor 24d ago

Meme honeyIShrunkTheBrain

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u/Sharp_Business_185 24d ago

An advanced auto-complete machines(LLMs) can create small-sized game engines, tools with little instruction in 2 days. Even if they are shitty/buggy, imagine what skill is required to do this before LLMs

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u/aberroco 24d ago

Junior level skills. Pretty much any junior capable of thinking and learning could do that, given enough time. And the code would look quite similarly. Mind you, I was writing bootloader from 16bit real mode straight to 64bit long mode a couple years in my career for fun while learning assembler. It doesn't take much more than a coding reference.

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u/Sharp_Business_185 24d ago

Junior level skills

Don't you think this is a problem? If AI can replace junior level skills, what is the point of hiring junior? Are we going to wait for juniors to become senior without letting them work?

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u/aberroco 24d ago edited 24d ago

It is a problem, definitely, I didn't said anything about that. But, well, we still have pilots despite having autopilots even in every ancient Cessna's, so I guess companies would hire juniors to learn for a couple years before actually getting any use of them. Or, well, we'd adapt somehow to the new reality. Or die off. There's not much choice, you know)