> The reality is that LLMs enable an inexperienced engineer to punch far above their proverbial weight class. That is to say, it allows them to work with concepts immediately that might have taken days, months or even years otherwise to get to that level of output.
At the moment LLMs allow me to punch far above my weight class in Python where I do a short term job. But then I know all the concepts from decades dabbling in other ecosystems. Let‘s all admit there is a huge amount of accidental complexity (h/t Brooks‘s Silver-bullet) in our world. For better or worse there are skill silos that are now breaking down.
At the moment LLMs allow me to punch far above my weight class in Python where I do a short term job. But then I know all the concepts from decades dabbling in other ecosystems. Let‘s all admit there is a huge amount of accidental complexity (h/t Brooks‘s Silver-bullet) in our world. For better or worse there are skill silos that are now breaking down.