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Jared Norman
@jardo.dev

"I also don’t think LLMs are going to meaningfully democratize coding any time soon; even if they become indispensable tools for programmers, they are likely to continue requiring users to “think like a programmer” when specifying and prompting."

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Steve Adams
@steve-adams.me

This post is a great lens to look at people like DHH through. It makes an excellent argument I would expect most senior developers to consider both intuitive and a lived experience, and in my opinion, shows clearly why we still can't "want and have everything". You can certainly pretend to, though

Steve Adams
@steve-adams.me

I do find it strange that so many people seem to be missing this, though. In my own work, LLMs are nearly a silver bullet for satiating curiosity (which is genuinely miraculous), but... The software I'm developing isn't _that_ much better, and the problems I encounter are... The same as ever

Steve Adams
@steve-adams.me

Also, by "I do find it strange..." I don't mean it in a passive aggressive manner in which it's not actually strange at all. It actually makes me wonder if I'm missing something, all the time. Either I am, or they are... It could also be that I work on much different problems

Steve Adams
@steve-adams.me

LLMs simply aren't an elixir for complexity, and if anything, they tend to make it worse. This exacerbates the point you highlighted, in that we still need (maybe more than ever) to think like programmers to address that problem and use LLMs effectively