Post #2970727
2026-03-13 23:09 UTC
@blackoverflow@norden.social Yeah, that second half of your thought was a big part of my realisation, too. If someone's primary experience with custom software development is being perpetually disappointed by external contractors, the coding LLM vendors have a much lower quality bar to reach in order to make their services commercially competitive. "Better than a sketchy body shop" is a far more plausible claim than "better than the best software engineers you have ever employed".
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@ancoghlan@mastodon.social 2026-03-13 23:28
@blackoverflow@norden.social It doesn't make the ethical and social problems with LLMs go away, but a lot of the code covered by outsourcing contracts is already protected more by trade secret law than by copyright law, so an org's IP lawyers would likely be OK with that side of things, and the insider risks from misbehaving bots are only arguably worse than those posed by external contractors, so I can see why the risk management folks would sign off as well. It all makes the paradigm shift claims plausible.