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Comment by bdangubic | Hacker News Reader

the number of experienced, senior programmers though, who are in “anti-LLM” camp, is still fairly staggering.

Why is that staggering? That feels like a pretty dramatic expression. Is it a foregone conclusion that one must use agents?

one does not have to use anything at all… but if someone is “senior” and is incapable of using llms for some parts of her/his job then senior part is just age related and not tied to skill level

You originally said being "anti-llm", but you now refer to being "incapable". Surely you can see that those are different things?

I mean when the tag line is "this will replace senior engineers and you, the senior engineer, must be forced to use it"

Then yeah, it makes sense.

Yeah I’m baffled why people are surprised that senior+ engineers who are being told in one breath they will be replaced by this tool and also they MUST use this tool to make it better to replace them aren’t happy about it or want to use it willingly.

I also find it wild how we’re sleepwalking into this, but I’m also part of the problem and using these things too.

If you're forced to use it by company mandate then that's fine. If you're not forced and still use it being fully aware, then I wish you well.

I’m forced to yes. It’s tracked.

as nvidia CEO wisely said - you won’t be replaced by these tools, you will be replaced by folk who excel at utilizing these tools

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