Does our expertise still matter?
Hello everyone,
I'm writing this post in relation to AI and programming. I often see people post on Reddit and Instagram saying there is no reason to program anything at all anymore, or they say something similar to "just use claude to make the solution."
To me, this just doesn't make sense. How can you create something without having a deep understanding of the underlying architecture or the logic behind it. The logic is so important especially for me (I do R&D and Tech Innovation). If it's not correct, everything fails. How can they just let Claude or an LLM do this without supervision? I've used it before, and it works great for boilerplate code, but as logic advances, the solution gets unnecessarily large.
I've been looking at statistics regarding this vs what social media/ LinkedIn is saying, and now software fails more often, security risks are more abundant than ever, and we're just churning out bad solutions that we hope works. Sometimes, the cost of tokens is as expensive as just hiring an engineer. Reviewing the code sometimes takes longer than making it myself, or the logic is just odd. Does our expertise in Golang, or programming, matter anymore? Is there still a need to learn the newest additions to Golang or anything else?
You could say I'm just a bit worried, but I don't know where things are going.