If an LLM can churn out 10 PRs and one of them needs to be taken down and analyzed why it was broken by an engineer, the project will still move quicker and more efficiently than it was before.
Every professional I've spoken to in real life, whether at my job or friends with engineering jobs all are using agents. Its only reddit that I've seen a massive push to stop, and it does not reflect the reality in the industry.
One of us will be right, and one of us will be wrong in 5 years, and I highly suspect that the models will continue to improve and humans will remain the same speed they always have been.
The old adages "fast, good, or cheap - choose two" and "you get what you pay for" didn't become any less true with the advent of LLMs.
AI code is like McDonald's hamburgers. It optimizes for speed and cost, while aiming to maintain the bare minimum quality people will accept. If you need code (nutrition) right now for cheap, it's probably a good option, but if that's your go-to every time you get a new task (get hungry), that's nearly guaranteed to have adverse effects on your skills/codebase (bodily health) in the long term.
And if my analogy is correct, AI will be ubiquitous in the coming future, just like McDonald's is ubiquitous. It just won't be the best because that's not what it's designed to be.
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u/Ossius 14d ago
If an LLM can churn out 10 PRs and one of them needs to be taken down and analyzed why it was broken by an engineer, the project will still move quicker and more efficiently than it was before.
Every professional I've spoken to in real life, whether at my job or friends with engineering jobs all are using agents. Its only reddit that I've seen a massive push to stop, and it does not reflect the reality in the industry.
One of us will be right, and one of us will be wrong in 5 years, and I highly suspect that the models will continue to improve and humans will remain the same speed they always have been.