I've been reading this New Yorker peace last night, and it's kind of upsetting. It's another retelling of the popular tale, that LLMs like GPT-4 will replace people like me, meat bag developers.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/a-coder-considers-the-waning-days-of-the-craft
Let me illustrate why this is bollocks.
I'm currently working on a client for BlueSky. As part of that, I'm trying to work around API limitations to get scroll position memoization going. I.e. close app, open app, continue were you left off instead of a reload.
🧵
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