I wouldn’t call LLMs a dead end, they’re so useful as-is

LLMs are useful, but they've hit a wall on the path to automating our jobs. Benchmark scores are just getting better at test taking. I don't see them replacing software engineers without overcoming obstacles.

AI for images, video, music - these tools can already make movies, games, and music today with just a little bit of effort by domain experts. They're 10,000x time and cost savers. The models and tools are continuing to get better on an obvious trend line.

	▲	atonse 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm literally a software engineer, and a business owner. I don't think about this in binary terms (replacement or not), but just like CMS's replaced the jobs of people that write HTML by hand to build websites, I think whole classes of software development will get democratized. For example, I'm currently vibe coding an app that will be specific to our company, that helps me run all the aspects of our business and integrates with our systems (so it'll integrate with quickbooks for invoicing, etc), and help us track whether we have the right insurance across multiple contracts, will remind me about contract deadlines coming up, etc. It's going to combine the information that's currently in about 10 different slightly out of sync spreadsheets, about 2 dozen google docs/drive files, and multiple external systems (Gusto, Quickbooks, email, etc). Even though I could build all this manually (as a software developer), I'd never take the time to do it, because it takes away from client work. But now I can actually do it because the pace is 100x faster, and in the background while I'm doing client work.