| I agree with your nitpick, I think. If your argument is that LLMs are more effective and less costly than typical low-quality outsourced code, I generally agree with that, depending on the details. For prototype/POC stuff, absolutely. For long term deployable product stuff that needs to be maintained, supported with SLAs etc... eh, like everything, it depends on the people/team. I've been leading dev teams for around 25 years, and I tend to think in terms of total cost of code. Cognitive debt is a real thing. The cost of a developer that leaves the team, and the struggle to have someone take over their work is real. With LLMs you have all this hidden cost, plus no "theory of mind", which makes the cognitive debt much worse. Combine that with atrophied skills, subtle bugs, architecture facepalms, security issues, etc... and the total cost of LLM generated code is a lot higher than just a subscription price. |