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I think you are correct that people say this, but its absurd that they are saying it in the first place.

Coding/engineering/etc is all problem solving in a strucutred manner.

That skill is not going anywhere

oh I agree but the last three years has felt like an endless chorus of people telling me SWE was going to be obsolete very soon so I had to push back against the idea that "nobody" thinks that.

I wouldn't have to listen to people talk about it all the time if nobody thought it was true

(not GP) To be fair, just because someone says something doesn't mean they believe it. Most of those folks have to know they're being absurd. But I agree saying "nobody" thinks something is over the top. People on the internet can be quite looney tunes.

A lot of people believe that programming is the typing of odd sequences of characters into a computer.

To them, it seems LLMs are also perfectly capable of typing odd sequences of characters.

The idea that SWEs do actual structured problem solving is mostly native to industry insiders.

Thank you for this. A very well stated explanation of a major reason the hype is soo off base from the people doing the work every day.

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