Post #1110203

My issue isn’t that I don’t understand what LLMs are being used by programmers for. I get writing boilerplate and unit tests can probably be don’t by software well enough, at least when supervised. That’s not even my real issue. My real issue is that programming, devops, systems administration. All of these things are art forms, every bit of them. From high-level application architecture down to the tiniest details of implementation. Like how much of a library you choose to include, what you name your variables, what type of loops you use to iterate through data. Giving these choices to the machine is like the painter giving their brush to it. Just like images generated by stable diffusion will never be worth their fully-human painted equivalent. So too will programs fail to hold that value. I’ve held contempt for VC-worshipping developers who see programming as a means to an end far longer than LLMs have been used for serious work.