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> I am now confident that within 5-10 years (most/all?) junior & mid and many senior dev positions are going to drop out enormously.

yes because this is what we do all day every day (port existing libraries from one language to another)....

like do y'all hear yourselves or what?





I’m afraid the boosters hear nothing.

The commenter you’re replying to, in their heart of hearts, truly believes in 5 years that an LLM will be writing the majority of the code for a project like say Postgres or Linux.

Worth bearing in mind the boosters said this 5 years ago, and will say this in 5 years time.


I would guess that the vast majority are not writing code for a project like Postgres or Linux.

> (most/all?) junior & mid and many senior dev positions


What purpose does this statement serve?

Everyone working in programming is writing code for a project more like Postgres or Linux than they are a project like making a wood cabinet or a life drawing.




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