Replies to Comments on "LLMs Are Eroding My Career"
Original: Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post
The author responds to community feedback on their viral post about how LLMs are eroding the software engineering profession and developer experience.
The author addresses widespread feedback on their viral post about LLMs eroding the software engineering career. They counter the "just don't use it" argument by explaining how industry expectations have already shifted. The post highlights why reviewing AI-generated code is more cognitively exhausting than writing it, and warns about the long-term impact on junior developers' skill acquisition.
This article is the author's follow-up response to their previously widely discussed blog post, "LLMs are eroding my career." In the original article, the author, as a senior software engineer, expressed anxiety about the popularization of AI-assisted programming tools (such as Copilot and ChatGPT): the work of programming is shifting from "creative thinking and writing" to "frantically reviewing and debugging AI-generated code," which not only strips away the joy of writing code (the Flow state) but may also lead to the atrophy of engineers' skills.
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