Meanwhile my company has finally shut down last low code instance this year, after 10 years of struggling with maintaining a mountain of unmanageable slow-ass code, all the while paying through the nose for the licenses. Spoiler alert - literally zero non-programmers in my company have ever constructed even a single low-code "thing", as was advertised initially. Every person who worked with it was a programmer or QA who could program (aka SDET) and they simply had to suffer with all the limitations of low code platform while gaining none of the supposed benefits.
I suspect it will end up this way with LLM generated code. At most managers would generate some non-operational prototype of some app and then throw it to the dev team who will have to spend time deconstructing it and then rewriting from scratch (with or without LLM assistance).
So like, 2-10xing the productivity of someone who gets paid <<< a software engineer? And who is more 1:1 with the profit from each widget? They don't care that much.
But juicing an already extremely juicy fruit? Now that's worth 70x ARR.
Yes, it allows them to solve their desperate need to combine spreadsheets, creating one big merged spreadsheet with pockets of corrupted data and fake last-names. It either lies undiscovered until clients complain, or I notice and have to redo the work for them properly, without an LLM. :p
https://www.reddit.com/r/NoCodeSaaS/comments/1mvb3tm/chamath...
Professional coders are the only ones who can get anything real out of llms(well, maybe a 19% decrease in productivity but it’s not fake.
Do you have a source on that “impact is monumental for non developers”? Because most of what I’ve been reading is that group is mostly vaporware.
Yesterday I was discussing with the head of a company that has been developing software for 30 years, and he told me that they had some old assembly code left, the original programmer retired years ago, so they converted the code with the help of LLM...
I use LLM to create scripts for various manipulations and data extraction from documents, once I managed to create a working "Wikipedia" after several attempts to make prompt as accurate as possible...
The question is not whether I could have done it, but how long it would have taken me without LLM.
But looking for bugs in "someone else's" code I created is a scary, frustrating job, especially when LLM hallucinates extensively somewhere in the middle of the work :)