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by fogzen 123 days ago
Not going to last long though, at least not professionally. AI will do the spec and architecture too. The LLM will do the entire pipeline between customer or market research to deployment. This is already possible with bug fixes pretty much. And many features too depending on the business.
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sarchertech 123 days ago
It AI gets to that level generally, there won’t be a customer, a market research department, or a software company at all.

But if AI is capable of that it’s not a big step to being capable of doing any white collar job, and we’ll either reorganize our economy completely or collapse.

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sergiomattei 123 days ago
I don't know. LLMs are great at writing code; but you have to have the right ideas to get decent output.

I spend tons of time handholding LLMs--they're not a replacement for thinking. If you give them a closed-loop problem where it's easy to experiment and check for correctness, then sure. But many problems are open-loop where there's no clear benchmark.

LLMs are powerful if you have the right ideas. Input = output. Otherwise you get slop that breaks often and barely gets the job done, full of hallucinations and incorrect reasoning. Because they can't think for you.

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