Anyone skilled enough to code can now codes in any language. Jobs aren't being replaced but no longer added.
I also demonstrated how an intern (1st year) was able to replace a 5 year experience position after six weeks of working with AI.
We're seeing a 5x acceleration in shipping after our first year with limited exposure.
That was always true. Once you learn how to program, it doesn't take a ton of effort to learn another language. It takes more time and effort to master a new language, but that's still just as true as it ever was.
While every single developer now uses LLM, the outcome really depends on how one is using it.
Don't you think that it might be more efficient to just communicate with the bullet points?
The operations crew is having it automate metrics rapidly. Senior developers are increasing their throughout rates. Things come back to code review in a generally better state because folk say "hey, review this for me".
Is it a real developer? Not at all. Is it affecting our hiring or anything? Nah. But it's already a huge help and rapidly getting better with new models (o3 / deepseek), tooling (CSP and agents), and integration (cline, cursor, memory prompting).
Idea to bank to pull funds to 3d print to market validation in a day.
Example from last week: pasted my terraform that was using internal custom modules and prompt that based on this code build additional services not yet built using the module output so they could all communicate.
First run. 100% accurate. Zero typing after paste and prompt. 2 minutes of time.
It probably saved me an hour at least of looking up module output and documentation with the additional services.
It may be minor or simple yet I now have an additional hour.