I mean, the “meta” right now is trying to automate as much of the software engineering flow as possible, including writing PR descriptions.
They’re shooting for LLMs being able to one-shot PRs or need minimal oversight. But yeah, in practice LLMs are not there IME.
This is the biggest issue I have with current state of affairs. It's not there yet. Because of that, extra work is needed to get them to work that otherwise would not need to be spent. Everyone is shouting from the roof tops about how great things are while suppressing these types of issues.
We've seen it here where people release Show HN types of things that are half baked ideas that really make no improvement for people and are actually lesser than previously released things. Yet they are expecting people to be amazed. Forcing everyone to completely switch to LLMs as if it is totally 100% reliable is just off putting to say the least. It takes discussing things with people honestly looking at the situation to have any semblance of thinking you're not the insane one for pushing back
I think everyone is coasting while the craze is on. Either it ends up being able to one shot all work and we have bigger problems. Or it can't, definitively, and we have bigger problems.
Honestly, either feels like an improvement over now.
If LLMs actually get good enough to really automate the production of good software, it'll be disruptive for the industry and we'll all have to adjust a lot more than we already are, but I think it'd be on-net good for it to be cheaper and easier to produce good software. And, in the past, such changes have only increased the size of the tech industry.
Or, if we finally realize LLMs aren't going to get there, there'll be at least increased demand for actual software engineers to clean up all the LLM mess.
But right now is the worst, where the industry feels like it's lying to itself about what these tools are capable of.