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points by move6729 11 hours ago | 0 comments
That's exactly what's happening. Software -> 0 marginal cost (obviously still need engineers to actually make the architecture). LLMs -> Price of Energy / Amortized Cost of GPUs. "AI Labs" -> Owned by Creditors
[–] s_u_d_o 7 hours ago
From an engineer, who’s devastated by this, i have to admit/raise my concern: why do we still need engineers to make architecture? Why is everyone saying that’s a must? For me the toughest problem was coding a huge repo/pkgs, architecture should be much of an easier task to do. I’ve seen it do sys design, scaled architecture better than 10X engineers. With good planning, context and prospective info -> it can produce extremely good architecture even for complex systems.
[–] nonethewiser 4 hours ago
Im not sure I would say architecture specifically. Just anything on the input and output.
[–] move6729 2 hours ago
It cant lmao (skill issue)