The point is LLMs may allow developers to write code for problems they may not fully understand at the current level or under the hood.
In a similar way using a high level web framework may allow a developer to work on a problem they don’t fully understand at the current level or under the hood.
There will always be new tools to “make developers faster” usually at a trade off of the developer understanding less of what specifically they’re instructing the computer to do.
Sometimes it’s valuable to dig and better understand, but sometimes not. And always responding to new developer tooling (whether LLMs or Web Frameworks or anything else) by saying they make developers dumber, can be naive.
Nope, it's not disingenuous. It's a genuine critique that it's just stupid way to think about things. You don't check in a bunch of prompts, make changes to the prompts, run them through a model, compile/build the code.
It's simply not the same thing as a high level web framework.
If you have an intern, or a junior engineer - you give them work and check the work. You can give them work that you aren't an expert in, where you don't know all the required pieces in detail, and you won't get out of it the same as doing the work yourself. An intern is not a layer of abstraction. Not all divisions of labor are via layers of abstraction. If you treat them all that way it's dumb and you'll have problems.
I applied a couple months back, and got a generic rejection email without really any information. My resume and skills match what y'all are looking for very closely. Any chance I could get a non-HR eyes on it and get another chance? I can email you a resume!
It is true that we use the same job description constantly, but we hire continuously too. Our team is mostly made up of full-stack Rails developers and so the same job listing has worked for many years as we have grown the team.
Reading every cover letter and resume we get takes a lot(!!!) of time. We only list open positions that we are hiring for.
Have had the same experience with them. Every time I see the job title and read the description I think wow that's perfect for me but then it is just the same reject letter or crickets. If they're looking for way more experience they should just say so.
The point is LLMs may allow developers to write code for problems they may not fully understand at the current level or under the hood.
In a similar way using a high level web framework may allow a developer to work on a problem they don’t fully understand at the current level or under the hood.
There will always be new tools to “make developers faster” usually at a trade off of the developer understanding less of what specifically they’re instructing the computer to do.
Sometimes it’s valuable to dig and better understand, but sometimes not. And always responding to new developer tooling (whether LLMs or Web Frameworks or anything else) by saying they make developers dumber, can be naive.