Future hiring will select for people that shipped the most, plain and simple.
The tech debt concerns are much ado about nothing. Use the next model to clean it up, big deal. Code is cheap.
The people that sat around handwringing about tech debt and trying to read every line of LLM code will really struggle to find a job. The profession fundamentally changed, and these people did not catch up.
Of course you shouldn't evaluate people by tokens, you should evaluate them by what they ship. Did it matter to the business? Did it ship fast? Did they build what was needed?
> The people that sat around handwringing about tech debt and trying to read every line of LLM code will really struggle to find a job. The profession fundamentally changed, and these people did not catch up.
I'm inclined to agree - the latest models seem to have crossed a threshold where trying to review by hand becomes akin to a manager insisting on reviewing PRs.
The tech debt concerns are much ado about nothing. Use the next model to clean it up, big deal. Code is cheap.
The people that sat around handwringing about tech debt and trying to read every line of LLM code will really struggle to find a job. The profession fundamentally changed, and these people did not catch up.