A likely correct but also at this point rather stale observation.
The people making that observation are somehow blind to the fact that what they are doing now is ever more likely to be taken over by AI too.
If they can convince people to never look at the code, they'll have no choice but to keep throwing more and more piles of their product at mysterious blobs of codebases that become increasingly difficult and expensive to manage.
- Horses to Engines
(non-deterministic to deterministic)
- Assembly to Higher-Level Language
(deterministic to deterministic)
- Higher-Level Language to LLM Prompts
(deterministic to non-deterministic)
These things are not the same. They are all fundamentally different transitions.
If your goal is to post that slop on linkedin and make a shitty startup that gets bought within 5 years, sure. In the mean time, the adults in the room will continue to maintain well thought out, well working software.
pyrophane•50m ago
anamhira•46m ago