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JaDogg commented on The Software Engineering Identity Crisis annievella.com/posts/the-... · Posted by u/napolux

I think we are underestimating the change that is about to occur in this field. There is a certain type of mind that is good at programming, and the field will no longer reward that type of mind as AI takes over. The smaller, gritty details of making something work will be smoothed over. Other types of person will be able to build, and might even surpass traditional "10x engineers", as new skill sets will take precedence.

JaDogg · a year ago

There is no such a thing as a 10x engineer. Anyone who appears as 10x only do whatever that maintains that illusion. (don't help anyone else, don't do support, keep all knowledge in head, bad documentation, etc)

JaDogg commented on The Software Engineering Identity Crisis annievella.com/posts/the-... · Posted by u/napolux

hnthrow90348765 · a year ago

My guess is that job requirements will grow even larger, so it will be better for people who like jumping around between front-end, back-end, infrastructure, database, product, support, testing, and management duties. You'll have to resist any uncomfortable feelings of not being good at any one thing, much less mastering it. Naturally, they won't ask non-technical staff and managers to suddenly become technical and learn to code with AI.

In the grander scheme of things, what matters is if their products can still sell with AI coders making it. If not, then companies will have to pivot back to finding quality - similar to offshoring to the cheapest, getting terrible developers (not always) and a terrible product, then having to rehire the team again.

If the products do sell with AI coders, then you have to reckon with a field that doesn't care about quality or craftsmanship and decide if you can work like that, day-in-day-out.

JaDogg · a year ago

Yes this is what I call "the accountant/spreadsheet theory", and I think this is the most likely scenario.

JaDogg commented on The Software Engineering Identity Crisis annievella.com/posts/the-... · Posted by u/napolux

JaDogg · a year ago

What I do is turn off copilot, do the design, get in the zone and enable copilot. This way I do not get it to slow me down, otherwise I just wait for it to do API calls. Even then, I turn it off when it create complete wrong implementations.

Problem is it doesn't know the layer of utilities we have and just rewrite everything from scratch. Which is too much duplicatation. I have to now delete it and type correct code again.

One advantage I have seen is that, it can defenitely translate / simplify what my collegues say, fix typos or partial-words. Which is very useful when you are working with lot of different people.

JaDogg commented on UK's hardware talent is being wasted josef.cn/blog/uk-talent... · Posted by u/sebg

wakawaka28 · a year ago

Keep importing skilled workers. I'm sure it will work out for you eventually. /s

Seriously, I feel bad for our British bretheren. The UK government is seemingly out of control and actively working against the people. There are also long-running geopolitical trends like outsourcing to contend with. Talk too much about these things and you're probably getting sent to prison. It's time for the US to bring some democracy to the UK lol.

JaDogg · a year ago

Could you elaborate further? I am a skilled immigrant in the UK. I pay my taxes and have not used any benefits. I even pay for my medication; the only free service I have used is a GP appointment or a hospital scan, which was likely covered by the IHS (Immigration Health Surcharge).

What have I done to make the country worse off?

JaDogg commented on What the TP-Link Ban in the US Means for You thedefendopsdiaries.com/w... · Posted by u/tuzzmaniandevil

rayiner · a year ago

We should just ban foreign routers. Massachusetts invented routers, why would we import them?

JaDogg · a year ago

What about exports? do you want to stop those too

JaDogg commented on Kenney.nl: Free Game Assets kenney.nl/... · Posted by u/memalign

JaDogg · a year ago

Kenny is great, I used Kenny Shape to draw Yaksha lang logo :)

JaDogg commented on Pdfcpu – A PDF Processor pdfcpu.io/... · Posted by u/smartmic

JaDogg · a year ago

Looks impressive - it can do lot of PDF modifications using a single static binary.

JaDogg commented on PWCT2: Programming Without Coding Technology github.com/PWCT/PWCT2... · Posted by u/thunderbong

JaDogg · a year ago

Good stuff, I like how individual tokens have colours in the tree view. it seems like a visual syntax tree.

JaDogg commented on Things we learned about LLMs in 2024 simonwillison.net/2024/De... · Posted by u/simonw

fullstackchris · a year ago

Very clear; I like buying music produced by people who play instruments.

JaDogg · a year ago

What you think of samples and FL Studio / DAWs?