I work on a pretty straightforward CRUD app in a niche domain and so far they haven’t talked about replacing me with some LLM solution. But LLMs have certainly made it a lot faster to add new features. I’d say working in a niche domain is my job security. Not many scientists want to spend their time trying to figure out how to get an LLM to make a tool that makes their life easier - external competitors exist but can’t give the same intense dedication to the details required for smaller startups and their specific requirements.
A side note - maybe my project is just really trivial, maybe I’m dumber or worse at coding than I thought, or maybe a combination of the above, but LLMs have seemed to produce code that is fine for what we’re doing especially after a few iteration loops. I’m really curious what exactly all these SWEs are working on that is complex enough that LLMs produce unusable code
A side note - maybe my project is just really trivial, maybe I’m dumber or worse at coding than I thought, or maybe a combination of the above, but LLMs have seemed to produce code that is fine for what we’re doing especially after a few iteration loops. I’m really curious what exactly all these SWEs are working on that is complex enough that LLMs produce unusable code