Worse, soon fewer and fewer people will taste good food, including even higher and higher scale restaurants just using pre-made.
As fewer know what good food tastes like, the entire market will enshitify towards lower and lower calibre food.
We already see this with, for example, fruits in cold climates. I've known people who have only ever bought them from the supermarket, then tried them at a farmers when they're in season for 2 weeks. The look of astonishment on their faces, at the flavour, is quite telling. They simply had no idea how dry, flavourless supermarket fruit is.
Nothing beats an apple picked just before you eat it.
(For reference, produce shipped to supermarkets is often picked, even locally, before being entirely ripe. It last longer, and handles shipping better, than a perfectly ripe fruit.)
The same will be true of LLMs. They're already out of "new things" to train on. I question that they'll ever learn new languages, who will they observe to train on? What does it matter if the code is unreadable by humans regardless?
And this is the real danger. Eventually, we'll have entire coding languages that are just weird, incomprehensible, tailored to LLMs, maybe even a language written by an LLM.
What then? Who will be able to decipher such gibberish?
Literally all true advancement will stop, for LLMs never invent, they only mimic.
Ironically, apples are one of the fruits where tree ripening isn't a big deal for a lot of varietals. You should have used tomato as the example, the difference there is night and day pretty much across the board.
If humans can prove that bespoke human code brings value, it'll stick around. I expect that the cases where this will be true will just gradually erode over time.
If humans can prove that bespoke human code brings value, it'll stick around.
Value to who, and which type of value?
Will that defining value be purely economic in nature? While it be purely defined by mega-corps, and their perception of value? The market moves, the money flows to those which control its direction.
We already see it today, with some firms literally forcing people to use LLM coding tools. The stories abound, of simply being forced to use whatever it spits out. Value, is often designed by cost, and code maintainability 5 years later isn't an immediate, quarter-profit induced concern.
It feels like you're glossing over a lot of my point.
In terms of new coding languages, it's rare to see new coding languages gain any traction, rust is the only recent one I know, and it's had a larger backer behind it since its release 15 years ago. It was supported in house for almost a decade before even seeing the light of day.
Will that happen now? And created (or at least managed) by a human? If not, what would a new language look like? Would it be human maintainable? Understood?
To me, this goes right back to the classic "buying a car with the hood welded shut". No way to maintain, repair, or even evaluate the quality of the thing under you.
> As fewer know what good food tastes like, the entire market will enshitify towards lower and lower calibre food.
This happened a long time ago in the US. Drive through California's Central Valley sometime and sample the fruit sold fresh along the side of the road. It's a completely different experience than the version you get at Safeway.