But also in my experience, my memory retention of the work done with an LLM is worse than doing it …

>My tinfoil hat says that this is what tech CEOs want. They want workers that are low skilled and can be paid less. My company is small, but my opinion at the moment is the opposite. Low skill workers don’t notice the flaws of what LLMs produce, I am no longer interested in hiring any juniors, as all they do is copy and paste LLM output without thinking, which anyone could do. It is the senior engineers who are most valuable to me these days.

> My tinfoil hat says that this is what tech CEOs want. They want workers that are low skilled and can be paid less. Guess it worked then. I'm happy to take a paycut to never deal with vibecode and toxic environment where every estimate is borked due to agentic coding.

> My tinfoil hat says that this is what tech CEOs want. They want workers that are low skilled and can be paid less. I think it's useful to divide companies doing software development, as well as specific jobs within a company, into two groups: 1) Companies where software is the product - where what you are working on is directly what is making the company money, and differentiating what they sell from what other companies are selling. These are the jobs you want, and where you will be valued. 2) Companies where software is only a component of the product, regarded as non-critical, or not product related at all - just internal IT systems. These are NOT the jobs you want! In a type 1) job the company (unless it is run by idiots) recognizes that better developers = better product = more profits. They will seek out experienced skilled developers and pay them what the market demands. In a ty…

Where are you getting that from? It's a productivity tool. Someone who knows what they're doing can leverage LLMs to improve their productivity. Someone who doesn't know what they're doing will be able to increase their output but not do it as effectively and with lower quality. If anything, it now requires more skill to maximize. If you have strong product and engineering experience you can get even more out of an LLM than one of those skills alone.

People gloss over memory retention way too much. You become like a manager who knows about the overview, but not the ins and outs (to a lesser degree). Maybe it's only me and my inexperience, but only reviewing doesn't make me as "in" as doing it myself.

> my memory retention of the work done with an LLM is worse than doing it myself self Do you think this is more because you are less close to the work? Or because there is simply more work being done/more to remember, so you're remembering a similar amount, but a smaller fraction? Or both, or something else?