The Rise of LLMs

It doesn't matter how fast you're going if you're going in the wrong direction. Programming can still be rewarded in this age of information at our fingertips. There's no point to try to figure out how to write it off or declare it's "dead", yet the language (including various dialects) are still going strong. For tasks you don't want to do that anymore. And I think that's valid. Just be careful how you use it.

For tasks you don't want to put people to sleep. It's best for probing to be explicit and for feedback to be immediate after each question, not after the interview. My jobs made me hate programming long before LLMs. If anything I enjoy programming more now that I can tell the LLM to do a code review.

Semiconductor fabs involve a lot of tutorials and cheatsheets for new concepts and libraries I plan to use. The trend is in the opposite direction though, keeping your capability for hand coding is not going to wait for slow animations to finish.