Replacing devs with LLMs.
The way I see it, if you code without it, you won't compete with the speed and value.
And they are not going to back fill those roles
I’ll admit my bias of having seen enough vacuous industry hype over the years to be naturally skeptical. Heck, I worked in a marketing department once where I helped manufacture the stuff (forgive me father for I have sinned, in my defense they did fire me after three months in a layoff). But my few personal experiences with ChatGPT were pretty disappointing and I’m actually looking for someone to tell me otherwise.
My personal use of gpt4 (also daily) is: correct, rephrase spelling from my brain dump, make python plots (stylize, convert, add subplots, labels, handle indexing when things get inverted), makw short shell scripts (generated 2FA, login vpn through console using 2fa, make script of disabling keyboard etc), and help debug my code (my situation is this, here's some code, what do you suggest?).
The last part is an interesting one for people with attention deficiency disorders, like myself, where procrastination can be conquered when there's an assistant that keeps you on track.
Aha, I’ll def have to give it a whirl. My procrastination ability is world class.
You can only make employees more productive.. this in turn could, in theory, lessen the need for developers in the long run, but it assumes the company will not bother to use the extra bandwidth for other projects.
And exactly like this some future brain implant thing will also put another layer of pressure. People will get it as it'll give them an edge on certain fronts.
This is exactly what would happen if ChatGPT was actually a productivity boost for senior devs. I don't know why some idiots on here keep insisting businesses want to get rid of people when that's not how the game works at all. Extra work capacity will always be used. Regardless of what payroll costs, what's always more important is the ROI.