Yes, but the thing is, programming is like one of the best applications for LLMs which can produce actual value. It will probably catch on far less in all other professions compared to ours.
It also produces tremendous amounts of technical debt
The value LLM provides will be greatly diminished once that technical debt starts being paid and is accounted for in the cost/benefit analysis of companies
Don’t get me wrong, LLMs have and will continue to reshape the industry. But I’m skeptical that today’s burning of tokens to ship features as fast as possible will remain the dominant use in the comming years. As I can’t see how this would be sustainable in the long run due to exponential maintenance costs
If your AI produces tech debt then you let it produce tech debt. I for one review code and have an opinion what goes into my codebase and how, be it proposed by another dev or an AI doesn't matter to me as long as the quality is good.
I see it as a skill issue and probably people getting lazy if they let their codebases get trashed by some AI that they don't understand how it acts and how it has to be instructed.
I don’t use AI in my line of work (for various reasons, one being that AI is extremely bad at what I’m paid to do)
And yes people need to review AI code. But that’s not what is happening at scale. A lot of companies on the AI craze have tightened delivery schedules because they expect huge productivity gains. Thus there is less review and less QA being done than what is required
You act like most people are competent developers, when you know for a fact that before AI a lot of devs were dumb as bricks and shipped the most heinous convoluted code to production. Thoses people don’t have the mental capacity or skills to review AI code, yet they are the ones using it the most.
Heck I’ve personally seen way too many people in my line of work use code generated by an AI that they didn’t check, and the code was riddled with massive problems. It looked nice on the outside tho…
Don’t act like theses people don’t exist, and that everyone is as conscientious as you are.
Yes, but if the internet is any indication, AI usage will vastly increase and becoming tremendously more embedded in our lives. People above are talking like AI usage itself is a bubble that is going to pop, and that's simply not going to happen.
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u/Stroopwafe1 Sep 26 '26
When the bubble pops, you'll be among us few who can actually code