Comment by soulofmischief
7 hours ago
It's funny watching people rediscover well-established paradigms. Suddenly everyone's recreating software design documents [0].
People can say what they want about LLMs reducing intelligence/ability; The trend has clearly been that people are beginning to get more organized, document things better, enforce constraints, and think in higher-level patterns. And there's renewed interest in formal verification.
LLMs will force the skilled, employable engineer to chase both maintainability and productivity from the start, in order to maintain a competitive edge with these tools. At least until robots replace us completely.
[0] https://www.atlassian.com/work-management/knowledge-sharing/...
The thing is that currently most of these projects are just done by engineers, Its easy to stay organized when the project lasts couple of weeks and stays within <5 engineers. The issues starts when the software starts living longer and you add in the modern agile practices, it comes a complete mess which each PM trying to add random features on top of the existing code. As you increase more and more code, the maintainability will just become impossible.