I read such articles more or less every day.
This article would be 100% correct if it came out 1 year ago, 75% correct 9 months ago, 50% correct 3 months ago and it's probably 25% correct now if not less.
I totally understand where this is coming from. I too am struggling with accepting that my 30+ years of programming experience is quickly becoming obsolete. I'm losing sleep about this, it's tough.
But just go ahead and give the latest models (Opus 5.5 / Astra 6 as of today) another try.
See what they are capable of and read the code which they produce.
Any problem area, low level C++ or high level Typescript or Clojure or a weird combination of these..
Don't be shy, give them a big task, let them build an entire app, UI and all..
Now compare the output to Opus 4 or gpt-5 from 1 year ago - when they couldn't put together a single function without it being weird and buggy.
This is exactly my problem, not that the models are very good already, but how fast they got so good.
So if coding is not solved yet, it'll get there very soon.
>> You're still doing 75% of what you did before.
No, I really am not. I'm doing maybe 10% of what I did before. The rest is filled up by other, usually higher order tasks like planning, product management and work orchestration.
Yeah, if anything I feel as if I’m working twice as hard for the same pay. I’m working through 10 “concepts” per week rather than 5 “concepts”. It’s like taking an accelerated university course (Calc 1&2 or Chem 1&2) except it’s every day for the rest of my career.
temp00345 · · focus · HN ↗
I totally understand where this is coming from. I too am struggling with accepting that my 30+ years of programming experience is quickly becoming obsolete. I'm losing sleep about this, it's tough.
But just go ahead and give the latest models (Opus 5.5 / Astra 6 as of today) another try. See what they are capable of and read the code which they produce. Any problem area, low level C++ or high level Typescript or Clojure or a weird combination of these..
Don't be shy, give them a big task, let them build an entire app, UI and all..
Now compare the output to Opus 4 or gpt-5 from 1 year ago - when they couldn't put together a single function without it being weird and buggy.
This is exactly my problem, not that the models are very good already, but how fast they got so good. So if coding is not solved yet, it'll get there very soon.
bluegatty · · focus · HN ↗
Now the syntax is handled for you, you have a research assistant, and someone that can really dig through the details for you.
The rest ... is still there.
enraged_camel · · focus · HN ↗
No, I really am not. I'm doing maybe 10% of what I did before. The rest is filled up by other, usually higher order tasks like planning, product management and work orchestration.
bluegatty · · focus · HN ↗
I feel as though we are all doing the work of 2 people + an Architect, not so much 'Product' issues, although I'm sure it varies.
But I can't imagine how any actual software is written with 10% of the effort.
datsci_est_2015 · · focus · HN ↗
bluegatty · · focus · HN ↗
Software was always intellectual work, this is Engineering Short Order Cook kind of stuff.
stackbutterflow · · focus · HN ↗