In July, Goldman's tech chief was praising the tools traders built with AI coding agents. New internal guidance hands those agents back to the engineers, weeks before Goldman takes Anthropic public.
That’s the whole point though. Companies don’t want software engineers, those cost money. If the business segment that needs the software can write it with plain English then that solves the need and saves them from paying engineers.
Right, but the more sensible ones still keep senior developers/engineers to manage the agents and act as the human-in-the-loop. They also know to keep the coding features to those people only. Like a marketing person that uses AI for presentations and graphics has no business writing, pushing, and running code. That’s also why fresh grads are getting the short end of the stick because companies are shifting hiring to senior/experienced people only.
Totally agree with the current state of LLM’s. They are sadly getting “good enough” that the code they shit out mostly works. I don’t know if, as we get close to the theoretical cap on LLM’s abilities, if that will hold.
I don’t see llm babysitting as a skilled career going forward if progress continues. Even when the LLM gets stuff wrong I’m still just using the model to discover why these days. I hate it.
That’s the whole point though. Companies don’t want software engineers, those cost money. If the business segment that needs the software can write it with plain English then that solves the need and saves them from paying engineers.
Right, but the more sensible ones still keep senior developers/engineers to manage the agents and act as the human-in-the-loop. They also know to keep the coding features to those people only. Like a marketing person that uses AI for presentations and graphics has no business writing, pushing, and running code. That’s also why fresh grads are getting the short end of the stick because companies are shifting hiring to senior/experienced people only.
Totally agree with the current state of LLM’s. They are sadly getting “good enough” that the code they shit out mostly works. I don’t know if, as we get close to the theoretical cap on LLM’s abilities, if that will hold.
I don’t see llm babysitting as a skilled career going forward if progress continues. Even when the LLM gets stuff wrong I’m still just using the model to discover why these days. I hate it.