On: AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems

[spicyusername]

Its true we will lose the skills, but so far the LLMs are more than picking up the slack when wielded competently.

They _regularly_ go above and beyond when troubleshooting and frequently in 1/2 - 1/1000th of the time.

I remember spending entire days troubleshooting in the before times. Now it's like 30 minutes, tops, on literally any issue.

This is what progress looks like. We used to do a thing and now we don't.

[mcmcmc → spicyusername]

> when wielded competently.

And what happens when the competency drains away?

[spicyusername → mcmcmc]

That's what everyone's learning to do now, that is the skill that people will be improving.

[FranOntanaya → spicyusername]

I still remember the "Visual" craze of the 90s when everybody was going to be able to make applications without writing code.

Visual Basic 6 wasn't even too esoteric, it could have happened already if it was a thing.

[2sk21 → spicyusername]

Who is going to teach programmers to wield AI competently?

[spicyusername → 2sk21]

That's what everyone's learning to do now, that is the skill that people will be improving.