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If the cost per unit delivery (say LOC) grows something like polynomial due to interconnectedness, surely it is superlinear for even a state of art formal reasoning system let alone imperative langs, it will outstrip our ability to build energy infrastructure. If the cost growth is exponential due to state space explosion, it will outstrip the energy in the Sun.

How does HN think these factors will balance?

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Yet humans can handle and untangle spaghetti code without requiring fusion power plants. There is no fundamental reason why LLM would fail to do it too. And as they improve the code they produce is better architected. So the situation is improving at both ends.

humans cannot in any sufficiently large project, for example government contracts and the entire banking sector.

They can. They are not allowed due to "reasons".

It’s rational - the risk of breaking things by changing them outweighs the ongoing costs of keeping them the same - including developer sanity, unfortunately.

An often overlooked point in these LLM vs human debates: the majority of humans are extremely fallible.

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