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And one step further, when those expert builders are no longer there, where will the next wave of new ideas come from (which need some expertise to have them and even more to turn them into reality)?

by nemonemo3 hours ago|

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Why does this sound very much like the argument toward full self-driving? If drivers need to be watchful of mostly autonomous ones, they get bored and lose attention or sometimes take nap in front of the steering wheel. Waymo came out of an extension of this argument..

by Aurornis5 hours ago|

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> So when builders are asked to do nothing but review, they will eventually tire of their jobs and leave, sometimes not just the job, but the industry entirely.

I do agree that a lot of engineers who want to do everything the old manual way are about to get really frustrated.

I don't think this is as universal as you say. There are a lot of engineers who are excited and happy to use these tools. Leave the bubbles of Hacker News, Lobsters, and similar sites and a lot of people are embracing these tools.

You also skipped the step where someone needs to direct the design. In the pre-LLM era it was commonly accepted that engineers who advanced to very senior roles would become less connected to the implementation details and more connected to steering, reviewing, and directing. Only a few years ago Hacker News was full of anecdotes about staff engineers who barely wrote code any more. Those people will have no problem switching to a new world where LLMs are handling implementation details.

by d_silin5 hours ago|

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The point stands, though. Senior engineers can detach themselves from implementation details because more junior engineers still do the hard parts. In the AI case, agents are the "engineers". Eventually all competency will be within AI domain and none within human one.

Why people are so eager to surrender their birthright to the machines for the mess of pottage?

by jacquesm2 hours ago|

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In cartoons you'd have this concept where someone is sawing away with great energy on a branch while sitting on the dead side of the saw. This is that concept, but on a much larger scale.

by joshjob423 hours ago|

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If people want to build stuff they can, they just may not be paid for it. But if we don't need to pay anyone to do anything then it also doesn't matter that you aren't being paid, as you'd have all you need, and you can spend your time tinkering away on low tech/cottagecore enterprises like designing an ASIC or making bread.

by d_silin3 hours ago|

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I am very skeptical about benevolence of our future overlords, humans or AI, towards people they don't need anymore.