Conversation

As against vibe coding and the like as I generally am, I'm not really worried about an LLM taking my job, at least anytime soon. AI's can write react components and Flask apps, sure. But I'm a systems level developer. I'm the kind of insane person who enjoys writing Rust and is looking at Zig during the hours I'm not working just because I enjoy the intellectual challenge of learning another hard language and the different ways of managing memory and low-level resources are fascinating to me. Five years ago I couldn't have predicted ChatGPT, so I'm not even going to try and predict what's going to come next. But an LLM replacing me seems pretty unlikely. Systems level work requires much more than just spitting out code. It requires hardware intuition and debugging instincts, something you can't get through training data. It makes you think about computers in a different way, and I think that if we get to a point where an AI can do what I spend 8 hours a day doing, the way we think about computers will probably have shifted in general, and it won't just be an LLM doing it.