[kadhirvelm]

I wonder if this is as good as LLMs can get, or if this is a transition period between LLM as an assistant, and LLM as a compiler. Where in the latter world we don’t need to care about the code because we just care about the features. We let the LLM deal with the code and we deal with the context, treating code more like a binary. In that world, I’d bet code gets the same treatment as memory management today, where only a small percent of people need to manage it directly and most of us assume it happens correctly enough to not worry about it.

[rzz3]

Why wonder if this is “as good as LLMs can get” when we saw such a huge improvement between Claude 3.7 and Claude 4, released what, a couple weeks ago? Of course it isn’t as good as LLMs can get. Give it 3 more weeks and you’ll see it get better again.

[kadhirvelm]

I don’t doubt LLMs will become better assistants over time, as you said every few weeks. I more mean if LLMs will cross the assistant to compiler chasm where we don’t have to think about the code anymore and can focus on just the features