Seán Furey

@petko

I imagine not, although I have no idea.

I think that's less of a question of " is there a fundamental problem with replacing programmers with llms?", more " if it happens, would it happen quicker than people can adapt to?".

Both are valid questions, they're slightly independent I think.

@petko @mjg59

My question was less about "these two issues are the only problems" than "let's pretend these two issues don't exist and look at the job issue on its own". Because of the plagiarism/slop/environment issues are ever "resolved" the job question will remain.

@petko @mjg59

I'm one of them. And it does worry me.

And at the same time, I think that a lot of dock workers lost their jobs when shipping became containerised. Do I think that shouldn't have happened? Do I think software engineering is different? I don't know, I'm trying to work it out.

@petko @mjg59

If the cheap prompter can produce the same results, what are the arguments against this?

- copyright violation in the training material
- excessively high use of the world's resources for training and inference

If both of those were handled (that's a big if. Maybe someday, maybe not) what were the arguments be against choosing the cheap Proctor?