Actually this makes me think of an interesting point. We DO have too many layers of software.. and rebuilding is always so cost prohibative.

Maybe an iteresting route is using LLMs to flatten/simplify.. so we can dig out from some of the complexity.

I’ve heard this argument made before and it’s the only side of AI software development that excites me.

Using AI to write yet another run-of-the-mill web service written in the same bloated frameworks and programming languages designed for the lowest common denominator of developers really doesn’t feel like it’s taking advantage leap in capabilities that AI bring.

But using AI to write native applications in low level languages, built for performance and memory utilisation, does at least feel like we are bringing some actual quality of life savings in exchange for all those fossil fuels burnt to crunch the LLMs tokens.