We systematically get posts and blogs and real-world experience showing that software development is actually about maintenance.
Yesterday we had an article about so many half-arsed software in maintenance mode that the world would be ending soon, crumbling under the weight of not-maintained enough software.
So far I've seen LLMs (I pay for GTP 4o btw) very good at producing boilerplate code. Does it help? Heck, yup.
Does it produce even more code needing ever more maintenance? You bet so.
At this rate it looks like we're going to need way more software developers, not less.
Yesterday we had an article about so many half-arsed software in maintenance mode that the world would be ending soon, crumbling under the weight of not-maintained enough software.
So far I've seen LLMs (I pay for GTP 4o btw) very good at producing boilerplate code. Does it help? Heck, yup.
Does it produce even more code needing ever more maintenance? You bet so.
At this rate it looks like we're going to need way more software developers, not less.