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0 pointsmempko6d ago0 comments

Writing code is not the hard part of software development. This is coming from someone who has programmed for 30 years, writing an average of 100k+ lines a year.

The sooner programmers start thinking about modeling the domain, user mental models, architecture and data structures and less focus on the mechanics of writing code, the better.

Writing code is the EASY part. LLMs have basically solved the easiest part of software development. They however are bad at all the stuff I mentioned. LLMs don't have a point of view, you do as a software developer.

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lelanthran6d ago

> The sooner programmers start thinking about modeling the domain, user mental models, architecture and data structures and less focus on the mechanics of writing code, the better.

You could have always had a role that did that; they're called BAs and most engineers didn't choose those roles because actually coding paid more.

Now that all the coders are also going to be BAs, the salary even for BAs will drop (increased supply).

You may think you want to be the person who only specs and never codes, but I doubt you want the salary of that person.

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