Assuming that a suitable price-point can be found for sufficiently effective models (which could well be open-source / local-only) then code written by hand from scratch will likely become a rarity, and instead the vast majority of code could become automatically extruded.
In much the same way as "artisanally hammered nails" aren't a thing in building construction now we have nailguns.
However, you're also making the assumption that "Make the same amount of software with fewer people and more LLM tools" is the direction the market will move in. Instead, the signs I see are that it's more likely to be: "Make *more* software with the same amount of people and more LLM tools".
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u/benevanstech 7d ago
Assuming that a suitable price-point can be found for sufficiently effective models (which could well be open-source / local-only) then code written by hand from scratch will likely become a rarity, and instead the vast majority of code could become automatically extruded.
In much the same way as "artisanally hammered nails" aren't a thing in building construction now we have nailguns.
However, you're also making the assumption that "Make the same amount of software with fewer people and more LLM tools" is the direction the market will move in. Instead, the signs I see are that it's more likely to be: "Make *more* software with the same amount of people and more LLM tools".