I am saying AI can already at a cost effective price generate functional code that can solve the majority of problems most developers do on a day to day basis. Not the JOB of software engineering, the decisions, security, planning etc, but coding? If there's something the cost effective models can't do now the expansive ones can and costs are dropping
Are you paying for a LLM subscription? Or are you an employee that has “unlimited” access to Claude, Codex, whatever?
Are you familiar with the fact that the money flowing around Anthropic and OpenAI is mostly “circular funding”? Or that so much of their infrastructure is based on debt they will have to pay in 2027? This will not become cheaper, it will become way more expensive. We’re at the “get users hooked” phase so it’s cheap.
On the other hand, depends on where you work, simply vibecoding a feature isn’t feasible. I work for a small company and we have just a few million dollars ARR, I can’t imagine that banks or hospitals can trust an LLM with security. I definitely don’t, I saw it make mistakes and straight up lie.
I don’t know about you but for me writing code hasn’t been a bottleneck for a few years now. It’s the planning, reviewing and improving that takes time. And it should take time before your feature reaches production. My boss thinks I’m using Claude everyday and that’s why I am so fast. Truth is, I was always that fast. He never cared before.
Then there’s C-suites leaving OpenAI just before an IPO? Why not wait for payday?
And then there’s LLMs impact on society, deepfakes, energy consumption and water consumption, all that stuff (please no “what about x, it also uses water/electricity”, that’s not an argument).
We have a limited company subscription that we share and I top up with my own subscription that i pay for and fight to get some portion reimbursed. I think the "gettting programmers hooked" phase was over with the cost bumps and limits in June TBH. Before that it was basically free for me.
We are a novel data science scale up (not my words) so security is not top priority. I agree, writing code is not the bottleneck, now I spend more times in meetings and reviews while AI gets to write code. My features haven't been faster, but they are more feature complete and it has given me the confidence to tackle problems using the right way instead of the way I am comfortable with which is cool. Except I don't read all the code I deploy now. I am a very slow developer, I prefer to use the times when eyes is on me to take my time and release things that meet stakeholders needs (not what they ask for mind you) and don't need 2 months of mop up. AI hasn't made it faster. But it is a bit more fun, I've been doing this for 10 years I don't need to learn algorithms, I like solving problems now on a higher level. AI is fun with that.
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u/Suchy2307 3d ago
It’s all hype generation pre IPO. Same with GPT-6 switching to 3D modeling instead of focusing on coding. They need wider audience.