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No, LLM is not going to replace software engineers, here's why – Fang-Pen's coding note
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Fang-Pen Lin's blog about programming
Today, I’d like to share my theory about why LLMs cannot replace software engineers, based on my experience and observations. Who am I to talk about this topic, you may ask. Well, not much, except that I have spent more than two decades of my life programming, almost every single day, long before GPT was a thing. You can check my GitHub profile , but it only captures one decade+ (from when git was a thing), and those are just GitHub repos not including all proprietary repos I have worked on. More than a decade of GitHub contributions on my public profile. This is only what GitHub can see (publ
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