But then you quickly have tech debt build up because current LLMs cant plan over long scales
replyThey don't do it by default all the time but if prompted to they're pretty good at designing and refactoring code
replyI'm increasingly finding my job is just making sure they don't go off the rails, and if they do it's a small effort of getting them back on track
I think you're underestimating your own role in making sure they are not going off the rails haha
replyyeah, I hope you're right. I find it hard to imagine how non or mildly-technical people would use it differently
replyStuff like a wrapper over Plaid and some OCR is definitely dead for sure.
replyBut currently they can't manage a vending machine as good as human, so I doubt they have our centuries long planning ability
Tech debt when doing a website? If it’s just a CMS, Claude and Codex are more than capable of building and maintaining it.
replyAlso, planning over long scales is not something you should do if you do lean/agile. Premature optimization is a root of all evil ;)
I don't think that Claude or Codex could build and maintain a CMS as of yet.
replySoftware is mostly in the last 5% of work