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You still have to know what you’re doing. That came from years of doing it by hand. Where is that necessary experience going to come from for the current and future generations of juniors?

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In 10 years llms will handle it all from start to finish.

We have passed peak LLM already. In 10 years, something might be handling "it all" from start to finish, but it won't be LLMs.

Saying we're at the Peak of LLMS is like saying we never went further than everest, these are probabilistic state machines sure, but the real value is the effort put into tooling and training these models in RL situations.

Shipping. Breaking stuff. Fixing it. And discovering, repeatedly, that the tool sounded much more confident than it had any right to.

Like always. This is why the average carpenter you hire in 2026 still won’t do a perfect job, despite carpentry having existed for thousands of years.

So you don't think fundamentals built by actually coding will be necessary to produce well structured and maintainable code with an LLM?

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