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by raincole 23 days ago
I fully agree. The reason that LLMs seemingly defy No Silver Bullet is that the premise of that theory is flawed. Software development has been mostly accidental complexity, not essential complexity. Actually I believe even with LLMs' help, the accidental part still takes the lion's share of the total complexity.
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Not really. The issue is that inexperienced people, while trying to solve the essential complexity, are creating so much accidental complexity that soon the project either collapses or oscillates between bugs. LLM is just the highway to reach that state sooner.