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Like an underrated harm of LLM coding is that it basically starts to strangle actual evolution of software engineering as a field. Why invent better ways of doing things? Why come up with better languages, better abstractions, better tooling?

New tools are always at a disadvantage against old tools that LLMs have enormous sample datasets to use effectively. If the future of software dev is LLM agent wrangling, then the future of software dev is a crystallized mid-20s present of software dev.

All of the misbegotten bad ideas of the last 10 years of software cruft, forever locked into the ecosystem. Swimming against the current will get harder and harder as programmers deskill and cede control.

We already live in a world of bloat by default, where people are taught to make web apps by first creating a scaffold that locks in using the most baroque and performance-indifferent frontend imaginable. LLMs are creating a world of bloat by policy.

Previously, new abstractions (monads, reflection, proxies, generics, etc) could be adopted and incorporated. Now if someone comes up with one, would anyone even notice? Would anyone care to make it available? Would the LLMs be able to use them? Eternal stagnation. 1000 year jsx reich

entirely probable that non-programmers or lazy people will do this, but you can also just tell it you want something lightweight and less arcane than react and it'll suggest a much better one. it suggested "roda" to me the other day which is a neat lightweight ruby fw i hadn't even heard of.