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whateveracct 37 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: What's gonna happen to software engineers?

i've heard of principle level engineers saying their typing is bad now.

skill atrophy is real. especially for the stupid.

Fire-Dragon-DoL 37 days ago [–]

I'm typing to talk to the LLM, so definitely not lost.

The main atrophy I'm concerned about is keeping in mind the state of a massive piece of code executing in my mind.

Now with LLM I just ask "show me the state by putting comments in the code" and I just read it

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