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0 points9wzYQbTYsAIc1mo ago0 comments

If the only thing LLMs did was clear enterprise technical debt backlogs, the end consumer would still benefit from the technology.

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andersmurphy1mo ago

That assumes they don't accelerate the accumulation of technical debt. For each item cleared how many new ones are added. LLMs accelerate your good engineers and your bad ones. So the slop likely increase faster than it can be cleared.

blharr1mo ago

And it will affect good engineers and turn them into worse engineers too

AI benefits rely on these good engineers having 5, 10, 20 years of experience pre-AI designing (and fully, thoroughly understanding) these systems. What's going to happen to that engineering skill after 15 years of AI use?

9wzYQbTYsAIcOP1mo ago

It ought to only get better as it gets honed at an even faster pace than before, utilizing techniques and algorithms that would have been out of reach due to outside constraints.

zar10485761mo ago

+1 This is the core question to ask.

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