You could but it would be a hugely inefficient system. Like, just address an actual need dude.
Most saas isn’t limited by the code behind it anyway. That almost doesn’t matter, even before LLMs. It mattered that there’s support, customer onboarding, solving a businesses issues, customer story, adapting to the needs of their business partners, etc. All of which require large amounts of real human work.
I really recommend you try LLMs again if you haven’t, the last part is really becoming less and less true every day. But I 100% agree that this does not pose a risk to the software developer for all the other points you mentioned. It will just make that trench digger more useful to the developer that needs it. And they’ll still need someone to drive the digger.
LLM is useful just like StackOverflow, Wikipedia, Web Search Engine, Manuals,… are. But automated (which is a pro) and with an hallucination problem (which is a core problem).
The others also may contain wrong information, but the risks are lower and not being automated means the risks are not compounded.
I personally believe we need more trustable source of information rather than automated way to transform it. Especially for the low hanging fruit of coding, which still require to presolve the problem and put us back at the real reason to have a developer.
And one thing that people seems to forget is the wealth of pre-LLM tools to speed up coding. No one uses notepad (from Windows 7) to write code, which is what they keep brandishing as the alternative to their agents and what not.
Apple originally announced they would bring Mac Pro production to the US in 2013.
The two articles you share are one from CNN saying apple was moving production back to China after 6 years in the US and second from apple a few months later saying they were keeping it in the US.
You put the article from September before the article from June to create a narrative that only a few months passed between Apple's announcement of US production and CNN debunking it. The only issue is that the CNN article was 3 months _before_ Apple's rebuttal.
However, this issue is complicated by the fact that Trump toured the factory in 2019 and claimed it was new, something the press picked up an and therefore the media stories of the time are pretty warped.
In reality, Apple had many issues ramping up production in the US for various reason, one example being supply chain.
If they started in 2012 and it all went rosy, why did they have another press release in 2019 announcing it again, and why are they making a big song and dance about it again 14 years later? If everything with manufacturing in the US was going fine, I would have expected them to start making a lot more products in the US over those 14 years. Instaead we have a couple of troubled product lines, and some big shiny press releases trying to show off its importance.
Brilliant. You can already see the HN users in here with emotional attachment issues who are sad because of the issues you talk about, and it’s causing them to bury their heads in the sand.
It’s going to be a hard transition, but we can’t pretend it’s not happening, that won’t get us anywhere.
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