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Why LLMs can't really build software
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this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2025
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Why though? I think hating and maybe even disrespecting programming and wanting your job to be as much redundant and replaced as possible is actually the best mindset for a programmer. Maybe in the past it was a nice mindset to become a teamlead or a project manager, but nowadays with AI it's a mindset for programmers.
This part.
The fact that I dislike it that it turned out that software engineering is not a good place for self-expression or for demonstrating your power level or the beauty and depth of your intricate thought patterns through advanced constructs and structures you come up with, doesn't mean that I disagree that this is true.
If your code is as comprehensible as that run-on sentence, I can understand why coworkers would ask you to please write simpler code.
lolwut? I'm so tired of tech people acting like they're the next Genghis Khan or Julius Caesar...
The problem is that you don't realize that writing code that is difficult to maintain is in fact not a sign of intelligence, or "power level".
It depends. If it's difficult to maintain because it's some terrible careless spaghetti written by person who didn't care enough, then it's definitely not a sign of intelligence or power level. But if it's difficult to maintain because the rest of the team can't wrap their head around type-level metaprogramming or edsl you came up with, then it's a different case.
No. Both are hard to maintain. And in fact, I'd prefer the spaghetti. It can be untangled.