HN discusses how LLMs affect senior engineers' careers
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On October 14, 2026, Hacker News user guitarlimeo started a discussion about where senior engineers' careers go as large models advance. Assuming LLMs get plenty of reinforcement learning on tasks with checkable answers like code and math, he asked why companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI don't run that reinforcement learning themselves by building or buying good and bad architecture datasets, and so replace humans in the design step. He also predicted that demand for hands-on programming skills will fall 90% within a few years, with soft-skill roles like product owner becoming more favored. The report only presents the poster's questions and predictions, with no company response or evidence that they have come true.
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- Hacker News front pageAsk HN: What is the current trajectory of a senior engineer?
Hacker News 用户 guitarlimeo 发帖讨论资深工程师的未来轨迹：当 LLM 在代码、数学等可判定对错的任务上被充分 RL 后，Anthropic、OpenAI 等为何不内部构建并购买好坏架构数据集来做 RL，从而取代设计环节中的人类。他认为几年内实际编程技能的需求将消失 90%，产品负责人等软技能岗位会更受青睐。
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