> I see a different future. A future where software developers are approached by clients with requirements in the form of an LLM generated program. They do it because they are at a point where LLM fails to make new changes without breaking existing stuff.

That's not gonna happen :-/ I've already had clients tell me they only want it modified, and their expectation is that it's only a days worth of work to make it work.

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bee_rider 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Did they end up getting what they wanted?

This LLM stuff is still quite new; I wouldn’t be surprised if people are still asking for your help wrong.

	▲	lelanthran 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Did they end up getting what they wanted? Who knows. I don't take on any dev work anymore that involves modifying existing applications, anyway. Too many have been of the form "Look, we did 99% of it, we just need you to do the 1% remaining" with the expectation that finding and fixing bugs in a vibed 90kSloC application is only a few minutes to a few hours of human labour. In reality, if you bring me something that Claude Code itself can't make changes to without breaking, it's going to be at least a week of billable hours before I know where to start.

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qsera 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That is sad. But if what I imagine is true, they will grow wiser after they have lost enough $$$ with scammers who agree to do it in a day and pocket the funds and give back an even more broken program.

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jollyllama 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How is what you're describing technically different than the quoted section? GP was correct, they just didn't realize that they were describing something bad instead of something good.