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Some people are actually interested in programming, coming and bleating about LLMs making all the finer points of it unimportant is as clueless as a manager coming here and telling us that syntax is unimportant because he has programmers for that crap.

If you don't care, don't go around in programming threads telling you how it doesn't matter anymore. It doesn't matter to you, because you prefer to be ignorant about the details of programming, and you have found tools that let you live in ignorance, good for you. But some of us do care, and are going to continue to do so.

My point isn't that what you are doing is pointless or that you shouldn't enjoy what you do but that it ultimately holds very little economic value especially as someone in charge of hiring developers, their experience is more valuable in the sphere of architectural design than expertise over syntax.

LLMs compile english to whatever code you want and it can write it better, faster and more efficiently than a human can over the long run. You might have an edge in shorter sprints but that gap is quickly reduced when LLMs simply learn and apply whatever optimization they find and it can continue to output without any diminishing returns and at fraction of what it takes to pay a human to do it.

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