Comment by hatthew

What? This is exactly what I would expect an LLM to be good at. Stack Overflow gives common solutions to common problems. LLMs give niche solutions to problems that aren't common enough for extensive discussion, but are still already solved if you find the right repository or study the documentation thoroughly.

Neither helps with the hardest and most time consuming problems faced by software engineers: solving problems that have never been (publicly) solved before, making hard decisions based on intuition about what will be necessary in the future, understanding the interactions between broad webs of dependency in large codebases, and working with proprietary domain knowledge.