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LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
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this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2026
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Funny because I think this is more important than ever. You can produce (ugly) code at remarkable pace now, being able to detect where it goes wrong is a very important skill nowadays.
I still can't let it loose too much because of all the garbage it still produces when given too much freedom. I'm honestly annoyed that my colleagues use it that much on production code, because it's so much meh code with hidden (on the surface) inefficiencies and a lot of avoidable boilerplate and duplication.
Then on the other hand I enjoy that it can create scripts (that are tedious to write) and prototypes at impressive speed. Generally prototyping and research has gotten quite enjoyable because you can stay most of the time on the theoretical side of things, quickly try things out or quickly get info to stuff you don't yet understand enough.