That’s fair I guess. I’m pretty consistently surprised by the wide variety of tasks that everyone under the “programming” moniker tackles. I consider myself a programmer by trade, even though I’m not a SWE. Your first paragraph couldn’t really be further from my personal experience. I haven’t thought in terms of functions in years, mostly “jobs”, “tasks”, “workflows”, “data flows”, “modeling”, “labeling”, etc.
Some people really do have jobs that I wouldn’t be surprised that LLMs will nearly completely automate away. And those people will be forced to move “up the stack” in terms of abstraction… but that’s already where I’m at. And LLMs are helpful, but I don’t feel threatened by them at all. If they take my job, I think computers will be declared obsolete. No more keyboards and mice.
Some people really do have jobs that I wouldn’t be surprised that LLMs will nearly completely automate away. And those people will be forced to move “up the stack” in terms of abstraction… but that’s already where I’m at. And LLMs are helpful, but I don’t feel threatened by them at all. If they take my job, I think computers will be declared obsolete. No more keyboards and mice.