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Comment by 9wzYQbTYsAIc

8 hours ago

If the only thing LLMs did was clear enterprise technical debt backlogs, the end consumer would still benefit from the technology.

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andersmurphy  4 hours ago

That assumes they don't accelerate the accumulation of technical debt. For each item cleared how many new ones are added. LLMs accelerate your good engineers and your bad ones. So the slop likely increase faster than it can be cleared.

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