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Software engineers that refuse to use AI, do you fear your reluctance to use this technology will impact your career when other software engineers will use it in their work? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 46 points 5 months ago (3 children)

My career is already impacted by others using it, whether I use it or not. Those who rely heavily on LLMs produce worse and larger code, and those relying on it heavily are not the best in the first place. It's turning -1x developers into -10x developers on account of them causing additional cognitive load on everyone else.

As for me? I don't have FOMO. If I'm right and it's a bubble that will collapse, then I'll be better suited to weather it. If I'm wrong and LLMs are all they're cracked up to be, then I will be able to get up to speed quickly.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago

    If I’m wrong and LLMs are all they’re cracked up to be, then I will be able to get up to speed quickly.

    That's the way I see it too. And is this path occurs hopefully open LLMs will be widely available and at least close in performance to the expensive, privacy invading cloud LLMs.

    Although it's the non-programming related impacts of AI I'm more concerned about.

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