Im inclined to say that if Bathesta used LLMs for story based on known best seller books - it would be better than the garbage created by so called “modern script writers”.

The same could be said about Hollywood movies and series.

When agenda is more important than fun, books, movies, games are not labour of love but neglet.

3/4 pf all code written now is auto-complete. Code was never the hard part.

What in case engineer picks a simple solution that is hard to understand, cant be tested and next person that comes looks at it and says “wth is that?”

In case you ask “how can simple solutions be hard to understand and test?”

Lets just say you use single line bash scripts with multiple pipes, loops and very niche cmds.

It will work, it will look like nightmare, it will be simple -> one line.

This will be the case tho.

US big brother will make sure to protect its little “older” brother. Hilarious as it sounds.

EU courts tend to take action based on the spirit of the law, so circumvention is also illegal

Coding will take 4 times less time, but review will take almost the same amount of time if not more if the solution does not worl out of the box or has unforseen corner cases.

LLMs were trained on public code libraries and unfortunately most pf that OSS code is garbage.

There are ofcourse raisins there, but those are far in between.

Top it off with hallucinations and suddenly you spend more time debugging messy AI code when you could write the same in a fraction of that time.

The easier the task, the better job LLMs do, the harder the task the worse results you get.

Source: working with those tools daily.

Using your analogy:

- by car it will be 30km uphill, coz of how the road is built

- walking it will be 1km straight line

So it can write better code than your below average software engineer.

It still cuts out 40-50% of workforce out.

For above average engineers its very good.

For bottom half not so much.

Translate for Mgrs - it replaces offshore completely.

And it will run rings around me in all the languages I don't know; every case in which my standard would be shockingly bad (I speak no APL whatsoever, for example) it would do better (in some cases, though, it would confidently produce an outcome that was actually worse than my null outcome).

The "below average" engineers are largely the juniors and the programming non-programmers.

The juniors can't be replaced because all senior engineer were once junior.

The non-programmers won't be replaced because they are not really programmers to begin with, so there is nothing to replace.

Translation for Mgrs - it supercharges offshore immensely. ftfy

Im using Claude daily. Mostly delegating boring stuff I can do myself but its a waste of my time now.

I store my prompts, so I know I often run the same task multiple times over weeks span.

After working with it for pas half a year I have to say the quality pf responses is steadily going down.

Feels like cost optimizations. Overall the worse it performs the more stuff I have to do myself, because I won’t waste time tweaking instructions every time it happens. It wpulf waste too much of that time.

So seems we are swinging back the pendulum.

No we dont. Valve will make sure this subscription model will die in infancy.

And thank god for that.