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In five years time, some CTO will review the mysterious outage or technical debt in their organisation.

They will unearth a mess of poorly written, poorly -documented, barely-functioning code their staff don't understand.

They will conclude that they did not actually save money by replacing human developers with LLMs.

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[โ€“] jacksilver@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The use of LLMs though is more similar to outsourcing than it is to a new technology. No one is talking a out changing how we program, we're talking about changing who does the programming.

While outsourcing has had its ups and downs, I think most companies have found that skilled technical people can't really be outsourced easily/cost money everywhere. I suspect we'll see a similar thing here with LLMs because the core compentcy that makes programmers/engineers expensive is knowing what to do, not how to do it.

[โ€“] someacnt_@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Greatly put, offloading to llms is nothing like people choosing for "easier" high-level languages. They are not really easier as well, imo.