I recall the Code Generation from class diagram and then low-code declared as death of all devs.
The current generation of LLMs are immensely expensive and will become further more if all the VC money disappears.
A FT dev is happy to sit there and deal with all the whinning, meeting, alignment, 20 iterations of refactoring, architectural change, late friday evening to put out fire. To make an LLM work for 40h/week with that much of context would cost insane and several steering people. Also the level of ambiguous garbage spewed by management and requirement engineers which I turn to value is… difficult with LLMs.
Lets take it this way, before LLMs, we have wonderful outsourcing firms that costs slightly less than maintaining inhouse team, if devs were to disappear, that would be the nail. LLMs need steering and does not deal well with ambiguity, so I don’t see a threat.
Also for all the people touting LLM holy song, try asking windsurf or cursor to generate something niche which does not exist publicly, see how well it does. Aside, I closed several PRs last week because people started using generated code with 100+ LOC which would do with just one or two lines if the authors took some time to review the latest release of the library.
The current generation of LLMs are immensely expensive and will become further more if all the VC money disappears.
A FT dev is happy to sit there and deal with all the whinning, meeting, alignment, 20 iterations of refactoring, architectural change, late friday evening to put out fire. To make an LLM work for 40h/week with that much of context would cost insane and several steering people. Also the level of ambiguous garbage spewed by management and requirement engineers which I turn to value is… difficult with LLMs.
Lets take it this way, before LLMs, we have wonderful outsourcing firms that costs slightly less than maintaining inhouse team, if devs were to disappear, that would be the nail. LLMs need steering and does not deal well with ambiguity, so I don’t see a threat.
Also for all the people touting LLM holy song, try asking windsurf or cursor to generate something niche which does not exist publicly, see how well it does. Aside, I closed several PRs last week because people started using generated code with 100+ LOC which would do with just one or two lines if the authors took some time to review the latest release of the library.