[cowlby]

That's the issue that I feel misses the forest for the trees. Relatively simple applications or thin slices exist right now, in production, in critical paths, as spreadsheets/CSVs/files on someone's desktop. That's the pent up demand I picture out there for developers.

Go to any SMB out there and there's a goldmine of processes that could be improved with LLM agents with full RW access to a database. Where backups are sufficient as a recovery mechanism that is better-than-before.

[sroussey]

I think the Venn diagram of people letting LLMs have complete control of their database AND having good backups, will have no overlap. The people that would benefit or not the people that have backups.

[steve_adams_86]

This is also a good point. Details like this are why I think experienced developers are going to remain relevant for a while yet. Anticipating what can go wrong is such a huge component of what building software systems is about. LLMs can be great at it, but only with the limited context they have, and even then only somewhat coincidentally.

[steve_adams_86]

Okay, totally agree. I think good harnesses are crucial but the premise is absolutely valid.