2026-01-05 14:55 UTC
@headmold@mastodon.social @HalvarFlake@mastodon.social I think it is, yes. While I consider the current LLMs not good enough for production quality code. They are more than good enough for various auxiliary tasks: experiments, debugging helpers, test harnesses, status pages, custom dataset explorers, impedance matching, fixing the build system. This vastly increases the scale of the projects you can take on. The actual production code is a small part of any large project.
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@headmold@mastodon.social 2026-01-06 05:02
@trademark@fosstodon.org @HalvarFlake@mastodon.social In the context of very large projects, e.g. Pyramids and the Empire State Building, those tools already have to exist. Maybe getting them done faster speeds up initial scaling for a project. Once a project's big enough, though, you have to revise, re-revise, re-re-revise, etc., these systems too. You have to understand what they're doing and what their real requirements are, still. So my guess is that LLMs don't help the biggest software projects get that much bigger.