[bogometer]

You said what I was thinking. AI can do the things I always found mind numbing and tedious, but because I did it already early in my career, I know when to intervene because the agent is not doing it correctly. I think that is the OP's point.

[xtajv]

I think about LLMs in software today as attempting to provide a similar role as compilers in terms of translating high-level thoughts into low-level details.

The only problem is that I actually trust compilers.

[smitty1e]

How quickly would you drop a non-deterministic compiler for the source code of a project?

[witx]

I detest this compiler analogy so much: llms are non deterministic by nature, compilers should not and are not