Believe me, only a dev can get this working. Maybe in the future, LLM wizards will conjure all our technology, but at this point, having a working knowledge of all APIs from 2021 is an assistive technology, not a magical code-machine.
I've used LLM to generate a lot of code recently on side projects. It's a 10x jump in productivity, but it can only reliably do 50-80% of the work, and the last tail needs editing, verification, setup with infrastructure, etc.
It won't read your mind, you need to iterate, re-create, and guide. And each of those 3 relies on a working knowledge of software, libraries, tech, and user experience to get right.
Exactly this. I doubt a non-programmer would be able to produce similar output of similar quality and completeness. Like I said, I am not losing my job yet. Maybe next year...
I hope so, speaking from the perspective of someone who wants to keep their job. But at the same time I feel it's not trivial to bring good arguments against LLMs taking over without resorting to "they can't take into account all the context and might make tiny mistakes". But maybe people can be trained to be verifiers/testers as opposed to code writers.
I've used LLM to generate a lot of code recently on side projects. It's a 10x jump in productivity, but it can only reliably do 50-80% of the work, and the last tail needs editing, verification, setup with infrastructure, etc.
It won't read your mind, you need to iterate, re-create, and guide. And each of those 3 relies on a working knowledge of software, libraries, tech, and user experience to get right.
For now.