Coding is Not Obsolete
The Debian "GR" (yes, they like this acronym, we can come up with jokes about plausible expansions of it) has encouraged many to lash out at the Debian Project and the people who run it. I wrote about it yesterday, as did many others. Nobody seems happy about it.
As Sydney Butler (Valnet) put it just 4 days ago, LLMs do disastrous, catastrophic things. They do so with confidence. The second headline says "[LLM]-generated commands look more trustworthy than they are" followed by: "Written with confidence, executed with errors". The same goes for coding and system administration, not just scripting, UNIX commands etc.
LLMs lacks any actual comprehension, they just poorly mimic inputs while blending the inputs together. The main problem is, many LLM boosters and gullible managers who rush to adopt them don't understand it, they're fed misconceptions and misnomers like "intelligence" or "agents" (attributing/ascribing to bots human characteristics they do not deserve). The community needs to keep pushing against LLMs not just because they're unfair, bad for the environment etc. They simply do not work as advertised; the end goal is to suck money (to be lost at an unprecedented pace) and to somehow pass control to few LLM "masters" much like social control media does. It outsources decision-making based on false promises and capabilities that cannot be attained.
When it comes to coding, we're being flooded by a sea of "legacy code" that will eventually need to be replaced by something reliable. We're not saving money/time, we don't improve efficiency, we drown ourselves in chaff to meet "LOC" objectives while ignoring everything else. █