2025-03-24 17:15 • 161 words

I am a sceptic when it comes to professional programming supported by LLMs. I think the cognitive limits of the human in the loop will turn out to become the upper cap of the output in a professional context. And I think it will turn out to be wasteful to burn the mental cycles of experienced developers with reviewing LLM slop.

But there might be an economic tangent to it, that could turn out dangerous for unapologetic fossils(like yours truly): a computing analogon to Gresham's law, if you will. The latter states that "bad money drives out good", and so it is conceivable that sloppy-pasta apps will be produced and deployed in a volume and frequency where the potential errors and exploit scenarios are just priced into the total cost of system ownership. It certainly doesn't help that the general public already has every reason to expect the software that governs its everyday life to be dysfunctional anyway...