Comment by 9wzYQbTYsAIc
10 hours ago
If the only thing LLMs did was clear enterprise technical debt backlogs, the end consumer would still benefit from the technology.
10 hours ago
If the only thing LLMs did was clear enterprise technical debt backlogs, the end consumer would still benefit from the technology.
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.
And it will affect good engineers and turn them into worse engineers too
AI benefits rely on these good engineers having 5, 10, 20 years of experience pre-AI designing (and fully, thoroughly understanding) these systems. What's going to happen to that engineering skill after 15 years of AI use?