[crnkofe]

Surely not 70% but like 5-10% might be a better ballpark figure. Coding or generating with LLMs is just part of the problem and always the fastest part of software building. All the other things eat disproportionately larger amount of time. QA, testing, integration testing, making specs, dealing with outages, dealing with customers, docs, production monitoring etc. etc. It would be cool if we get AI involved there especially for integration testing though.

I really dislike the entire narrative that's been built around the LLMs. Feels like startups are just creating hype to milk as much money out of VCs for as long as they can. They also like to use the classic and proven blockchain hype vocabulary (we're still early etc.).

Also the constant antropomorphizing of AI is getting ridiculous. We're not even close to replacing juniors with shitty generated code that might work. Reminds me of how we got "sold" automated shopping terminals. More convenient and faster that standing in line with a person but now you've got to do all the work yourself. Also the promises of doing stuff faster is nothing new. Productivity is skyrocketing but burnout is the hot topic at your average software conference.