[andriy_koval]

> Today my "coding" sessions often enough begin with real life problems

intuition is that your sessions consists of 10% of domain related reasoning, and 90% of code plumbing. Those 90% could be moved to cheap and efficient specialized and focused model.

[jstummbillig]

Possibly! It's just hard to reason about from the outside. When does the model benefit from all the ambient knowledge? Idk.

Regardless, it's fairly obvious to me that none of what I do now will require "frontier models" for much longer. Models are getting better more quickly than my problems are getting harder.

[RussianCow]

But that 10% is the most important part! Getting the plumbing wrong means you might have bugs or your code is brittle. Getting the domain-specific business logic wrong means your product doesn't fundamentally solve the correct problem.