Comment by x3ro

In my experience, even if the code is not worse, there is so much more of it that people quickly stop understanding what is going on. Now you could argue „the LLM knows“, but that comes at an insane token cost, even if it works well.

This is in the interest of big AI companies: if they quasi-monopolize the skills entire sectors of the economy need in order to function, that will be great (for them).

Everyone keeps comparing this to compilers, but I don’t need a multiple-hundred dollar subscription to use LLVM. And people didn’t stop understanding how computers work either, just because they used C. And yeah, maybe local LLMs will become the norm, and I hope so. But market forces (hardware prices) certainly are working against that right now.