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> With AI, it is like coding is on GOD mode and sure I can bang out anything I want, but so can anyone else and it just doesn't feel like an accomplishment.

That's the thing - prompting is lower-skill work than actually writing code.

Now that actually writing code has less value than prompting, and prompting is lower skill than writing code, in what world do you think that the pay will remain the same?

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> Now that actually writing code has less value than prompting, and prompting is lower skill than writing code, in what world do you think that the pay will remain the same?

Don't you think people said the same thing C and Python? Isn't Python a lower skill than C for example?


> Don't you think people said the same thing C and Python?

Maybe. Are they here now?

> Isn't Python a lower skill than C for example?

No. Being able to solve a problem using Python over C is not even in the same class of being able to solve a problem by asking for it in English.


> in what world do you think that the pay will remain the same?

It can, but now you output must be a min of 2x.


> It can, but now you output must be a min of 2x.

Great! I turn from a creator to a babysitter of creators. I'm not seeing the win here.

FWIW, I use LLMs extensively, but not to write the code, to rubber-duck. I have yet to have any LLM paired with any coding agent give me something that I would have written myself.

All the code is at best average. None of the smart stuff comes from them.




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