How much creativity do you need to fix bugs in corporate code? Almost zero. It’s maintenance, not creative work. Nothing against it, it’s needed, but let’s be real, would anybody be really sad if this work is overtaken by LLMs? I certainly won’t be, let them do it.
> How much creativity do you need to fix bugs in corporate code? Almost zero.
Have you seen the state of current corp software? I'd say a lot of creativity is still very much needed. Let's see how long this is sustainable.
> would anybody be really sad if this work is overtaken by LLMs?
I'd not be sad about the job itself, but the dev which had a mortgage to pay but now is substituted by a machine churning crap code while their superiors get sore from patting themselves on the back.
IBM system/360 OS had more than 50,000 bugs which could not be fixed because fixing any single bug would introduce two new bugs. I fear that a lot of AI software systems will reach the same crapware state as IBM system/360 very very soon!
I know from personal experience that once you fix a bug introduced by Claude, Claude tries to recreate the bug every time he edits that code again!!