[HN Gopher] You Are Here
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You Are Here
Author : mltvc
Score : 18 points
Date : 2026-02-07 21:49 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| ossa-ma wrote:
| With all due respect to the author, this is a lot of words for
| not much substance. Rehashing the same thoughts everyone already
| thinks but not being bold enough to make a concrete prediction.
|
| This is the time for bold predictions, you've just told us we're
| in a crucible moment yet you end the article passively....
| jdjdndbdhsjsb wrote:
| Here is my bold prediction: 2026 is the year where companies
| start the lay offs.
|
| 2026 is the year where we all realise that we can be our own
| company and build the stuff in our dreams rather than the
| mundane crap we do at work.
|
| Honestly I am optimistic about computing in general. Llms will
| open things up for novices and experts alike. We can move into
| I the fields where we can use our brain power... But all we
| need is enough memory and compute to control our destiny....
| IhateAI_2 wrote:
| The one-shotted mind is truly hilarious.
| stephenlf wrote:
| > The cost of turning written business logic into code has
| dropped to zero
|
| Didn't realize this was science fiction.
| geetee wrote:
| I appreciate the author making that the first sentence.
| IhateAI_2 wrote:
| I feel like YC has a bunch of these optimistic blog posts ready
| to throw up on the front page anytime something goes viral about
| how LLMs are bad.
|
| Software isnt going to become more economically valuable its
| going to be used to replace economic inputs of labor with units
| of compute.
|
| Its entirely intended to take humans out of the equation or
| devalue human labor and it always has. Dont be a fool.
| pousada wrote:
| What went viral? To me it just seems like people are pretty
| divided on the topic which makes sense as it's an emerging
| technology. I feel I see as many posts against AI as glazing
| it.
| kykat wrote:
| To me it seems like the big question for the future will be how
| to achieve political relevance as "the little guy". It seems
| like with LLMs the typical "get educated" pathway for the lower
| class is closing quick. I dread to think of a world where large
| portions of society are essentially "useless".
| mohsen1 wrote:
| I am thinking about this a lot right now. Pretty existential
| stuff.
|
| I think builders are gonna be fine. The type of programmer were
| people would put up with just because they could really go in
| their cave for a few days and come out with a bug fix that nobody
| else on the team could figure out is going to have a hard time.
|
| Interestingly AI coding is really good at that sort of thing and
| less good at fully grasping user requirements or big picture
| systems. Basically things that we had to sit in meetings a lot
| for.
| monero-xmr wrote:
| I own (cofounded) a medium-sized saas business with hundreds of
| employees. I maintain final decision of everything technical and
| still code every day because it's important. All of the engineers
| use LLM tools, you'd be stupid not to. But I need good engineers,
| I replace good engineers when someone leaves, and the business
| itself is so much larger than just programming. The system is
| just so huge and complex, and I am the benevolent dictator that
| architected it and maintains its final opinions, that the LLM
| does not replace the need for engineers.
|
| Furthermore if we were truly in the utopia the author describes,
| why do all the LLM companies employee (and pay top dollar) for so
| many engineers? Why does OpenAI pay for slack when they could
| just vibe code a chat app in an hour?
|
| The challenge of building a real, valuable software business (or
| any business) is so much harder than using LLM to prompt value
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