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Consider the difference between capabilities when gpt3 was released and now - the "increasingly babysitting" is exactly right.

Knowing how to code (and more generally software engineering and other roles in software teams) is definitely still extremely useful, but is rapidly becoming less vital as a human-provided skill as models and harnesses greedily hoover up the knowledge margin.



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