All this makes me think making software engineers redundant is really the "killer app" of LLM's. This is where the AI labs are spending most of the effort - its the best marketing after all for their product - fear sells better than greed (loss aversion) making engineers notice and unable to dismiss it.
Despite some of the comments on this thread, despite it not wanting to be true, I must admit LLM's are impressive. Software engineers and ML specialists have finally invented the thing which disrupts their own jobs substantially either via large reduction in hours and/or reduction in staff. As the hours a software engineer spends coding diminishes by large factors so too especially in this economy will hours spent required paying an engineer will fall up to the point where anyone can create code and learn from an LLM as you have just done. Once everybody is special, no one is and fundamentally employment, and value of things created from software, comes from scarcity just like everything else in our current system.
I think there's probably only a few years left where software engineers are around - or at least seen as a large part of an organization with large teams, etc. Yes AI software will have bugs, and yes it won't be perfect but you can get away with just one or two for a whole org to fix the odd blip of an LLM. It feels like people are picking on minor things at this point, which while true, for a business those costs are "meh" while the gains of removing engineers are substantial.
I want to be wrong; but every time I see someone "learning from LLM's", saving lots of time doing stuff, saving 100's of hours, etc I think its only 2-3 years in and already its come this far.
Despite some of the comments on this thread, despite it not wanting to be true, I must admit LLM's are impressive. Software engineers and ML specialists have finally invented the thing which disrupts their own jobs substantially either via large reduction in hours and/or reduction in staff. As the hours a software engineer spends coding diminishes by large factors so too especially in this economy will hours spent required paying an engineer will fall up to the point where anyone can create code and learn from an LLM as you have just done. Once everybody is special, no one is and fundamentally employment, and value of things created from software, comes from scarcity just like everything else in our current system.
I think there's probably only a few years left where software engineers are around - or at least seen as a large part of an organization with large teams, etc. Yes AI software will have bugs, and yes it won't be perfect but you can get away with just one or two for a whole org to fix the odd blip of an LLM. It feels like people are picking on minor things at this point, which while true, for a business those costs are "meh" while the gains of removing engineers are substantial.
I want to be wrong; but every time I see someone "learning from LLM's", saving lots of time doing stuff, saving 100's of hours, etc I think its only 2-3 years in and already its come this far.