wiredog • June 17, 2025 11:52 AM

“Organizations are likely to continue to rely on human specialists to write the best code and the best persuasive text, but they will increasingly be satisfied with AI when they just need a passable version of either.” and as Clive mentioned “High end reference based professional work.”

As a programmer with 30 years experience I’ve been using some of the LLMs in my work. One thing I’ve noticed is that LLM often knows about a Python library I’ve never heard of, so when I ask it to write code to compare two python dictionaries and show me the differences it tells me about DeepDiff and gives me some example code. Which would have taken hours of research and some luck otherwise.

The other thing I’ve noticed is that LLMs seem to follow a 90/10 rule. 90% is right on, 10% whisky tango foxtrot? The 10% seems to arise related to lightly or inconsistently documented APIs (AWS, for example…). The thing is, a dev just out of college has the same success rule. So junior devs absolutely can be replaced with LLMs.

But then where will we get the midlevel and senior devs in 5 to 10 years? Accountancy firms are apparently wrestling with this question too.