Comment by torginus
9 months ago
Dunno, in work we wanted to implement a task runner that we could use to periodically queue tasks through a web UI - it would then spin up resources on AWS and track the progress and archive the results.
We looked at the existing solutions, and concluded that customizing them to meet all our requirements would be a giant effort.
Meanwhile I fed the requirement doc into Claude Sonnet, and with about 3 days of prompting and debugging we had a bespoke solution that did exactly what we needed.
the future is more custom software designed by ai, not less. alot of frameworks will disappear once you can build sophisticated systems yourself. people are missing this
That's a future with a _lot_ more bugs.
youre assuming humans built it. also, a ton of complexity in software engineering is really due to having to fit a business domain into a string of interfaces in different libraries and technical infrastructure
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That's a future paid for by the effort of creating current frameworks, and it's a stagnant future where every "sophisticated system" is just re-hashing the last human frameworks ever created.
Bingo. LLMs are consuming data. They cannot generate new information, they can only give back what already exists or mangle it.
It is inevitable that they will degrade the total sum of information.