I’m about to head away from looking after this site for a few weeks (part vacation, part work stuff). As I contemplate some weeks away from the daily routine, I feel an urge to share some scattered thoughts about the state of LLMs and AI.
Read in full here:
Although I am still scared of the future, I agree with the author. We still have to wait for some time before we have an idea of how it will really affect software development in general.
The distinction between AI vs without AI is not so clear yet.
We probably need more understanding to align and understand AI can help us while which parts we need to manage by ourselves.
I’m afraid of the time when LLMs become so advanced that even a junior developer or a non-developer can produce as much high-quality code as a team of senior developers.
Regardless of the impact on productivity and, more broadly, the job market, I think AI-assisted programming makes the work less enjoyable, at least for me. I actually like programming. I enjoy building things from the ground up. I don’t want to feed an AI a list of requirements just to review whatever code it spits out. I dread that vision and hope it will never come.
This parallels nicely with the journey/destination ethos. If you make the latter the only thing that matters, and getting to it as quickly as possible, then you miss the entire point of the dance.
