[rtmx]

TBH, I'd say we were there long before LLMs came to 'help'. Software world was in a dreadful state for a decade or so, maybe longer, I'd say — devs get powerful machines not like normal users, everyone is 'just doing their job', software tested in isolated environments so no one cares about installing a couple of their own 'background services in NodeJS' on a user machine — not a big deal, yeah? And so on...

At the same time, I see the future being brighter with the help of these coding LLMs — I personally was not building software for years, focusing on management-like work. Serious coding during 'free time' was just too heavy to lift — you need time to sleep, eat and do some IRL things too...

Now, having experience in building software and caring of what I create and why I can do this far more quickly with LLMs and it kinda opens possibilities I could only dream of before. Like get a few spare $$$ millions and hire a team to build something before = pay $20 to Cursor/Claude and spend a few days guiding it like if it was a team of junior outsource devs: it's painful sometimes, but if you really know what you're doing and why — it works. And no one stops you from tweaking pixels when the majority of work is done — you'll even have a will to, as opposed to writing it all by yourself and spending all your mental energy on routine stuff.

So... if people learn to use this hammer properly — I suppose the future might be brighter than the past. And also those who actually care but didn't have time to do things they're passionate about now can do things on their own.