[tobinfekkes]

While LLMs can appear to write code, they can not execute, maintain, or design the systems that use this code.

The actual "code" was never the hard part to begin with.

Developing software is not going away soon. LLMs only addresses a small part of what it means to develop software.

[alismayilov]

If we think about the demand and supply of the market, since developers will spend less time writing code, they will have more time to solve other parts of a project. This overall increase in productivity could eventually decrease the number of developers needed. In the past, if a project needed five developers, it could eventually be done by two developers. Hence, the market will need less developers than before.

[b20000]

the cost of fixing and maintaining the AI generated code will turn out to be enormous and a lot of code will need to be thrown away and re-written from scratch by experienced developers

[alismayilov]

But maybe the quality of the code will be very good in the long run. Why do you think that developer will write better code than LLMs in the long run?

[b20000]

why do you think LLMs will achieve actual intelligence and reasoning matching that of humans?

[alismayilov]

It was only seven years ago that Google introduced “Transformers,” and today we see a completely different level of LLMs. Do you think this development will stop? Maybe it won’t be LLMs alone that do reasoning better than humans, but five years ago, nobody expected that we would have today’s performance.

[meiraleal]

the need for less developers will actually increase the demand because it will be easier for smaller companies or business not related to tech to have a software department.