Comment by kace91
1 day ago
Our industry wants disruption, speed, delivery! Automatic code generation does that wonderfully.
If we wanted safety, stability, performance, and polish, the impact of LLMs would be more limited. They have a tendency to pile up code on top of code.
I think the new tech is just accelerating an already existing problem. Most tech products are already rotting, take a look at windows or iOS.
I wonder what will it take for a significant turning point in this mentality.
disruption is a code word for deregulation, and deregulation is bad for everyone except execs and investors
it's sadly telling how this comment got greyed out to oblivion.
One possible positive outcome of all this could be sending LLMs to clean up oceans of low value tech debt. Let the humans move fast, let the machines straighten out and tidy up.
The ROI of doing this is weak because of how long it takes an expensive human. But if you could clean it up more cheaply, the ROI strengthens considerably- and there’s a lot of it.