Comment by dcre

I see this response a lot but I think it's self-contradictory. Building faster, understanding faster, refactoring faster — these do allow skilled developers to work on bigger things. When it takes you one minute instead of an hour to find the answer to a question about how something works, of course that lets you build something more complex.

Could you say more about what you think it would look like for LLMs to genuinely help us deal with complexity? I can think of some things: helping us write more and better tests, fewer bugs, helping us get to the right abstractions faster, helping us write glue code so more systems can talk to each other, helping us port things to one stack so we don't have to maintain polyglot piles of stuff (or conversely helping us not worry about picking and choosing the best stuff from every language ecosystem).