It's just so boring! But it's essential. And I think LLMs can help manage the tedium, as well as find gaps in tests that humans would easily overlook, unless they're very thorough.

That said, I think the gains will mostly be in boring, enterprise software; they are often a lot more code that, if the application is designed well, is mostly configuration and boring wiring. Boring code is good for LLMs to write.

But the underlying tools like GCC are not boring. They will have boring aspects to it, but for the most part they are not boring.

Hard agree on this! Given the aggressive templating a lot of these projects have, it's actually positive to see "ok, these clankers can do the boring thing..." from one so traditionally safe-playing on development approaches as GCC.