Comment by TheOtherHobbes

By the same logic we should allow anyone with an LLM to design ships, bridges, and airliners.

Clearly, it would be very unwise to buy a bridge designed by an LLM.

It's part of a more general problem - the engineering expectations for software development are much lower than for other professions. If your AAA game crashes, people get annoyed but no one dies. If your air traffic control system fails, you - and a large number of other poeple - are going to have a bad day.

The industry that has a kind of glib unseriousness about engineering quality - not theoretical quality, based on rules of thumb like DRY or faddy practices, but measurable reliability metrics.

The concept of reliability metrics doesn't even figure in the LLM conversation.

That's a very bizarre place to be.