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> LLMs, if tuned for software development, present an opportunity … to produce software of unprecedented quality and with as yet unseen features and usability.

Given that I can barely get LLMs to produce an error free couple of functions I doubt that. Though I suspect it’ll boost the median quality of software.

IMHO software quality requires care and skill along with a management that values quality.

Take Meta, they had billions of dollars and spent it freely. Yet the Metaverse software is mediocre at best. They had John Carmack in their rosters and the Mets developers reportedly ignored him. Giving those developers the ability to make more code won’t make the results magically good.

[elcritch]

Otherwise you make good points. Companies like Intuit using AI as a justification to lay off lots of devs will face issues later when it comes about that it doesn’t scale.