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An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below (twitter.com/lifeof_jer) 831 points by jeremyccrane 1 day ago | 1036 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911524

The comparison isn't valid because nearly all software "engineers" don't do anything resembling engineering; they are mere coders. A better analogy would be to assembly line workers: coders glue together packages and libraries and frameworks pre-made for them by other, actual software engineers. The craftsmanship is one of the few things coders could bring to the table.

At a high level of abstraction, the product owner can talk to the LLM directly by themselves. The "engineers" will have abstracted themselves out of a job.

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If good coffee is the goal and one doesn't insist specifically on espresso or having steamed milk, the humble pourover is a good starting point. The pourover funnel, filters, and a decent hand grinder are relatively inexpensive and, with only a little practice, the output is as good as any americano produced by the average barista at 1/5 the price per cup.

60-70 years ago would have been the 1950s-1960s, the American post-WW2 economic boom. The rest of the world was rebuilding their cities and mourning their dead.

Sure, you can have another post-war economic boom if you're willing to go through another world war to get to it and a drone doesn't get you. You're in luck, seems like we'll be having one soon.

> "The one thing that my generation (Gen X) seemed to have was always some optimism for the future."

The vibe among Gen X was that the west was going to get invaded / nuked by the Soviets or economically crushed by the Japanese.

Until the dot com boom, we all thought we were going to be lucky to manage a store at the mall.

Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807762 from the same user.

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I agree.

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Developers who say things like this are toast; they bring nothing to the table other than the ability to talk to the LLM. The product owner does not need an expensive headcount to talk to the LLM on their behalf.

(Lots of crappy product owners do, you say? Such POs are going to be toast too when being able to communicate with the LLM fluently becomes part of the job requirements.)