[fancyfredbot]

In my view the reasons why LLMs may be less effective in a corporate environment is quite different from the human factors in mythical man month.

I think that the reason LLMs don't work as well in a corporate environment with large codebases and complex business logic, but do work well in greenfield projects, is linked to the amount of context the agents can maintain.

Many types of corporate overhead can be reduced using an LLM. Especially following "well meant but inefficient" process around JIRA tickets, testing evidence, code review, documentation etc.

[pigpop]

I've found that something very similar to those "inefficient" processes works incredibly well when applied to LLMs. All of those processes are designed to allow for seamless handoff to different people who may not be familiar with the project or code which is exactly what an LLM behaves like when you clear its context.

[nradov]

The limited LLM context windows could be an argument in favor of a microservices architecture with each service or library in its own repository.

[jdlshore]

That just moves the complexity to the interactions between repositories, where it’s more difficult to understand and fix.