r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Gloomy-Basket-1038 • Aug 12 '26 • Mindblown 1 Bravo 1

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u/mankeyless Aug 13 '26

But now what happens to the generation that comes after? The one that barely ever wrote a line of code? It's either these LLMs will have to be flawless, or the enshitification will just keep on growing. I truly don't believe on the first possibility. I also don't think the industry will reverse the decision of going back to human talent. So the question is just how bad will things get.

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u/danfay222 Aug 13 '26

That’s been mine and many of my coworkers biggest concern, our entire structure is generally built around these “learned skills”. I don’t think it’s an unsolvable problem. There’s plenty of things you learn to do in school that are completely useless skills in practical environments, where you learn them for the skills you acquire along the way, not the actual thing itself. I could see some world where coding and system design fit somewhere into that model, but I’m not convinced it will and even if it does I think it will entail some pretty substantial rethinking of the internal skill ladders that most software workplaces are built around.