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Sue Smith · 3w
Feeling pretty fucking smug about my predictions so far, turns out knowing something about coding pedagogy actually helps you understand how skills work in industry eh.
Sue Smith · 3w
I guess we'll see what the long term damage to wages etc is going to be, people are still obvs going to be fucked by the massive investment in this. But at least we should be able to wrestle back some leverage and agency.
Sue Smith · 3w
The wilful ignorance to think this would be enough time to make that case even if it were possibly true is wild tbh, it takes many years to introduce such a profound change. Separate from the fact that it was based on a misunderstanding of what software engineering is..
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With LLM platform subsidies ending and the reality of adoption over time becoming clear, I really hope we can get to the point where we figure out the actual subset of software engineering tasks this stuff can usefully automate.. The window for employers pretending it replaces developers is closing imo, it was always a smokescreen but it's going to become an existential business threat to all but the biggest, and even then..
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Sue Smith · 3w
I suspect they believed so profoundly in its capacity to replace people they thought that would be case closed before the pricing rug pull had to happen. They were incorrect!
Sue Smith · 3w
Felt like Ross Greer was wondering if it was some sort of trap, could it possibly be so easy
Sue Smith · 3w
I miss the web ๐Ÿ˜ญ