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Comment by bitwize | Hacker News Reader

Don't care. It's no longer up for debate: this is the future. Shape up or ship out.

Why even responding then? And are we not allowed to talk about how doing our jobs makes us feel?

If programmers like being able to pay their rent/mortgage, they'll quickly learn not to feel sad about literally the best thing to happen to software development in decades. Because otherwise they'll be replaced by someone who's delighted with it (they're not hard to find).

Bang on.

>who's delighted with it

A programmer who is not delighted by programming cannot be very good at it. So the same people who are "delighted" by using an LLM is the exact same people who should not be using it.

It would be like putting a person who don't know how to drive in the driving seat of a semi-autonomous driving vehicle.

Can you explain how an LLM is going to grill up and package food for my customers?

I'm able to pay rent just fine without one...

Nah, my theory is that people hyping slop programming are the sort of people who sucked at programming beforehand, and LLMs hide that pretty well.

The decline of intellectually stimulating work is nothing to celebrate, nor is a sort of machine-driven natural selection

And when they're all out of work and desperate, what then? History suggests it will turn very bloody

Is that really the future you're delighted about? Or are you just so shortsighted that you don't realize it is an inevitable outcome of mass unemployment is that the masses will eventually snap and it will get seriously ugly?

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