Who knows what the future holds? As a SWE you are expected to adapt and use modern technology. Always learning is a part of the job. Look at all the new things to build with, frameworks being updated/changes, etc. Making things easier.
LLMs will make things easier, but it's easy to disagree that they will threaten a developer's future with these reasons in mind:
* Developers should not be reinventing the wheel constantly. LLMs can't work very well on subjects they have no info on (proprietary work).
* The quality is going to get worse over time with the internet being slopped up with the mass disregard for quality content. We are at a peak right now. Adding more parameters isn't going to make the models better. It's just going to make them better at plagiarism.
* Consistency - a good codebase has a lot of consistency to avoid errors. LLMs can produce good coding examples, but they will not have much regard for your how -your- project is currently written. Introducing inconsistency makes maintenance more difficult, let alone the bugs that might slip in and wreak havoc later.
LLMs will make things easier, but it's easy to disagree that they will threaten a developer's future with these reasons in mind:
* Developers should not be reinventing the wheel constantly. LLMs can't work very well on subjects they have no info on (proprietary work).
* The quality is going to get worse over time with the internet being slopped up with the mass disregard for quality content. We are at a peak right now. Adding more parameters isn't going to make the models better. It's just going to make them better at plagiarism.
* Consistency - a good codebase has a lot of consistency to avoid errors. LLMs can produce good coding examples, but they will not have much regard for your how -your- project is currently written. Introducing inconsistency makes maintenance more difficult, let alone the bugs that might slip in and wreak havoc later.