In five years time, some CTO will review the mysterious outage or technical debt in their organisation.

They will unearth a mess of poorly written, poorly -documented, barely-functioning code their staff don’t understand.

They will conclude that they did not actually save money by replacing human developers with LLMs.

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  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    401·
    9 months ago

    They will conclude that they did not actually save money by replacing human developers with LLMs.

    The next CTO might realize that. If there hasn’t been a change in upper-level management, they’ll just double down and blame the few remaining human developers for the mess.

    CTO’s are incapable of self-reflection.

    • Jesse@aus.social
      112·
      9 months ago

      @TootSweet @ajsadauskas They’ll just completely rewrite it from scratch using a newer LLM and that will be considered normal. In those 5yrs the percentage of developers who remember the idea of code having longevity will be tiny.