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That’s why we abstract the useful code away as libraries, frameworks, etc.

AI is not an abstraction.

Of course it is. It abstracts away the code generation to a much more compressed natural language prompt. That's the very definition of a high abstraction...

It abstracts shit mate. How many Rs in the strawberry and if you want to go to a car wash, should you walk, run or drive? They're just fucking text generators, which happen to spit out something half-usable about 60% of the time.

You generally need to wire libraries in to your service, and you may be using the library in a slightly different way than normal. AIs are perfectly capable of doing this.

Back to the original point, though: most software engineering work isn't novel. Most people are working on slightly different iterations of the same thing, but with the aim of different products. You can have completely different products that use nearly the same patterns as most other services.

To put it bluntly: we don't need AI to generate novel code for the vast majority of the software being built.

It depends on the programming. However, you're right: another Angular reinsurance accounting application doesn't pose much of a challenge for LLMs.

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