Have you considered extra time it would take for some person other than yourself to get onboarded into the problem you are solving? It can quickly add 2-3 extra hours on top of that [seemingly easy] work.
And they've been at the company working with the FE stack longer than me by a few months!
I'm not even on the frontend team and decided to take the matter into my hands because I was pretty sure my ask wasn't too onerous so I wanted to double check. It had an out-of-the-box, first party add on package to do exactly what we needed to get data in the right shape on the backend, but the dev made it seem like I was pushing more work on FE. I'm just trying to get the right data format...
That said the pure prompt engineers might suffer similar fate as Stack Overflow engineers, for another reason: the limiting factor of building software is not shitting out code or even tests, it’s curbing the accumulated total complexity in the project as it grows. This is incredibly hard even for humans but the best engineers can reduce it. These most difficult problems have at least 2-3 properties that make them almost impossible for LLMs today: they’re non-local, hard to quantify and have enough constraints to mandate solutions that end in the fringes of training data set. Even simple self-contained LLM solutions introduce more complexity than necessary.
> I think this is very real, and will act as a force towards center of gravity of the LLMs which means popular and established tech