you’re acting like the solution here is LLMs
No, you're imagining that's what I wrote. LLMs are a tool, not a solution.
Fine, you’re acting like the tool for the solution is an LLM.
A helpful tool, very helpful in some situations.
X to doubt. My job is currently filled with people using LLMs and most of what I’m doing is undoing their shit our detangling whatever LLM output they paste
The real problem that people and LLMs struggle with is: what should we be doing in the first place? LLMs don't solve that,
Correct
they do accelerate the making of a software thing when you know what you want that software thing to be.
Incorrect. They accelerate making a ton of code that is impossible to maintain, update, etc. If you know what the software is, it was never writing it that was the hard part. That’s why senior+ developers have been saying for decades that the hard part of the job isn’t coding. It’s everything else.
They also accelerating the finding of flaws during the process, enabling cleaning those flaws out faster.
Incorrect. Like I said, half my job is reading over extremely verbose LLM bullshit from colleagues to tell them every single thing the LLM said incorrectly. That didn’t happen before LLMs. People checked their work. LLMs don’t have a mind, they cannot check their work.
That's not a problem for tools to solve, that's a societal problem that goes back to - at least - the start of agriculture.
I didn’t say it was a problem for tools to solve! But it sure is a problem tools can cause! And that’s exactly what’s happening here. It’s making everything so incredibly worse that there is literally no justification for it!