In the fullness of time, LLMs will eventually become commodities and their price will be a race to the bottom. As the competitive advantage of one LLM over another shrinks - particularly as open source models expand - the value proposition will turn to the neuro/symbolic harnesses that use those models, structures that encompass agents, agent orchestration, tooling, and component plugins. Even those from frontier AI organizations will fall to open source frameworks. The last thing standing will be those who command the data centers on which these things run, and even then, that will become a commodity, with the number of players shrinking to just a few survivors. They too will find pressure: as computational power rises, more and more such systems will be run locally.
Every time I see someone saying “the hardest part of software engineering was writing the code itself”, I check their LinkedIn to find they only did junior level software engineering before they became a “founder”.
@davidfowl They don't care. E.g in the web building business if you look at where it is now vs even say 5 years ago in terms of ease, regular people (non tech echo chambers) still don't want to click buttons
What happens often is some idiot L5 will write a 1-pager saying hey we should fix this. A VP will read it and go yes good idea, you can have it. The L5 says no you don’t understand, I have a full plate. VP says don’t worry, your workload has been reduced to 95%.
I am that L5.
If you post about code quality, there is an army of influencers who are attacking you. This isn't about generated code but the new age of sloppy programming culture. Sloppy code is ok when you are building prototypes not when you are dealing with user data for X billions.
If you want to form bold opinions where software engineering is going, you should at least have written a single line that went into a production system in the last 10 years.
If you want to work on something shiny and bleeding edge, work on consumer products.
If you want to work on something deeply boring but stable, work on platform / cloud products.
This is CEO talk. He ran out of ideas. And I'll say it again. The current generation of CEOs do not know how to compete in a hard biz environment. Or the ops work it takes.
They are great at marketing. And fraud.
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