Comment by Thanemate

>But is it relevant if the code isn't for humans?

The implications to your statement seems to me that is: "you'll never have to directly care about it yourself, so why do you care about it?". Unless you were talking about the codebase in a user-application relationship which in this case feel free to ignore the rest of my post.

I don't believe that the code will become an implementation detail, ever. When all you do is ship an MVP to demonstrate what you're building then no one cares, before or after LLM assistance. But any codebase that lives more than a year and serves real users while generating revenue deserves to have engineers who knows what's happening beyond authoring markdown instructions to multiple agents.

Your claim seems to push us towards a territory where externalizing out thought processes to a third party is the best possible outcome for all parties, because the models will only get better and stay just as affordable.

I will respond to that by pointing out that, models that will ultimately be flawless in code generation will worth a fortune in terms of adding value, and any corporation that will win the arms race will be actually killing themselves by not raising the cost of access to their services by a metric ton. This is because there will be few LLM providers that actually worth it by then, and because oligopoly is a thing.

So no. I don't expect that we'll ever reach a point where the average person will be "speaking forth" software the same way they post on Reddit, without paying cancer treatment levels of money.

But even if it's actually affordable... Why would I ever want to use your app instead of just asking an LLM to make me one from scratch? No one seems to think about that.