It’s the most obvious conclusion, once you start using LLMs. There’s no grand conspiracy here

Yup. As a principle SWE with over 30 years writing code, I can say that the business case for hand-written code is now almost completely gone. If you are still writing code entirely by hand and expect to profit from that labor, you are doing yourself or your employer a gross disservice.

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bigstrat2003 20 hours ago | parent [-]

As an engineer with 20 years experience, I can say this is bogus. LLMs still - right now, today, with the latest model - make errors that humans would never make. They cannot be trusted. So you have to carefully review everything they produce, which negates the productivity gains. You may as well just write your own code, it will be similarly fast and better quality.

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		I think both of you could be correct based on a whole host of qualifiers like current SDLC landscape, specific business domain, current delivery pipelines, etc.
	▲	grim_io 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		You will at least need to use LLM's to check for your manually introduced inconsistencies and security problems, like we see right now in kernels and libraries we considered peak of human achievement. If an LLM can spot those better than a human, I'd wager it can write code without introducing them in the first place.
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