That's the thing too right.. the vast majority of software out there barely needs to scale or be super efficient
It does need to be reliable, though. LLMs have proven very bad at that
It does need to be reliable, though. LLMs have proven very bad at that
That was the way I saw it for a while. In recent months I've begun to wonder if I need to reevaluate that, because it's become clear to me that scaling doesn't actually start from zero. By zero I mean that I was naive enough to think that all programs, even the most googled programmed one by a completely new junior would at least have, some, efficiency... but some of these LLM services I get to work on today are so bad they didn't start at zero but at some negative number. It would have been less of an issue if our non-developer-developers didn't use Python (or at least used Python with ruff/pyrefly/whateveryoulike, but some of the things they write can't even scale to do minimal BI reporting.