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w10-1 | on: Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?
I think you're talking about the differencing between coding and writing systems, which means you're talking teams, not individuals.

Rarely, systems can be initiated by individuals, but the vast, vast majority are built and maintained by teams.

Those teams get smaller with LLMs, and it might even lead to a kind of stasis, where there are no new leads with deep experience, so we maintain the old systems.

That's actually fine by big iron, selling data, compute, resilience, and now intelligence. It's a way to avoid new entrants with cheaper programming models (cough J2EE).

So, if you're really serious about dragging in "commercial-grade", it's only fair to incorporate the development and business context.

pdimitar | parent
I have not seen any proof so far that LLMs can enable teams. I and one other former colleague had to fix subtly broken LLM code several times, leading to the "author" being reprimanded that he's wasting three people's time.

Obviously anecdata, sure, it's just that LLMs for now seem mostly suited for throwaway code / one-off projects. If there's systemic proof for the contrary I'd be happy to check it out.