[nikitau]

And not to mention that a C compiler is something we have literally 50 years worth of code for. I still seriously doubt the ability of LLMs to tackle truly new problems.

[simianwords]

What do you classify as new? Every problem that we solve as developers is a very small deviation from already existing problems. Maybe that’s the point of llms?

How many developers do you think are solving truly novel problems? Most like me are CRUD bunnies.

[xigoi]

If your problem is a very small deviation from an existing problem, you should be able to take an existing open-source solution and make a very small modification to adapt it to your use case. No need for “vibe-coding” a lower-quality implementation from scratch.

[1718627440]

And these developers do not write the majority of their codebase, they use tons of libraries and only write the glue code.