My biggest takeaway from “LLMs are useful for some aspects of writing software, and lots of people like it” is still that the existing tools we made for writing software are bad.
The last 20 years were spent on ever more complex layer cakes of frameworks, humongous IDEs and more new and “improved” programming languages that I can count—yet many programmers prefer a chatbot over them.
Replying to @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
@thomasfuchs I have been programming in cloud and large distributed systems for, at this point, two thirds of my career.
On a whim, I looked up two jobs at other companies with very similar technical needs to my own.
Each of them is using a family of tools I have never heard of before to do the same job.
Each are using different tools from each other.
You'd better believe I'm leaping into the machine that knows how to build analogies between them. Because I don't want to be rendered less useful by the churn. And not only can I not stop the churn... I probably shouldn't. The solution isn't to shut down the bazaar.
But the bazaar encourages diversity at the expense of simplicity.