Comment by csomar
11 hours ago
Easy fix: Code's basically free now, so just pipe your errors straight into an LLM and get instant patches. Sure, the patches themselves are broken too, but no worries! just pipe those back in again. Code's disposable now, fresh code generated on every request.
On a more serious note, I think the problem will be the inability to handle/maintain the systems once they are too big and nobody has no idea what's inside of them or what they do.
Yeah, it’s so easy to generate code that you can do a whole codebase rewrite in a day.
Is this a good idea? Probably not—in the past we would only do that when the architecture was causing serious problems since it always has tons of behaviors that will accidentally not get carried forward, some of which are load bearing and will cause bugs.
Now we can do it in an afternoon and get the same long term bug behavior.