> - This is partly b/c it is good at things I'm not good at (e.g. front end design)
Everyone thinks LLMs are good at the things they are bad at. In many cases they are still just giving “plausible” code that you don’t have the experience to accurately judge.
I have a lot of frontend app dev experience. Even modern tools (Claude w/Opus 4.6 and a decent Claude.md) will slip in unmaintainable slop in frontend changes. I catch cases multiple times a day in code review.
Not contradicting your broader point. Indeed, I think if you’ve spent years working on any topic, you quickly realize Claude needs human guidance for production quality code in that domain.
Yes I’ve seen this at work where people are promoting the usage of LLMs for.. stuff other people do.
There’s also a big disconnect in terms of SDLC/workflow in some places. If we take at face value that writing code is now 10x faster, what about the other parts of the SDLC? Is your testing/PR process ready for 10x the velocity or is it going to fall apart?
What % of your SDLC was actually writing code? Maybe time to market is now ~18% faster because coding was previously 20% of the duration.
It’s the Gell-Mann amnesia effect applied to LLM instead of media