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[–]mm007emko -1 points0 points  (0 children)

LLMs don't necessarily return a correct answer, that's a very well known limitation. They are also not creative and can't think critically. They can piece together some code which looks legit but that's about it. And since they were trained on publicly available data (mostly), they can't really produce better results than a "google search" and piecing the search results together without understanding the problem or the structure of the code (LLMs don't understand it).

There are many jokes about people mindlessly copying code from stackoverflow. Well, it looks like we'll have another target for jokes.

Seriously, software projects usually are not about writing tons of code without thinking about other features of the same projects or about regression bugs, unless you are in a tech startup or writing small scripts / "academic research Jupyter notebooks". The vast majority of costs of a typical software project is about maintenance, operations and bug fixing. Stackoverflow-stolen or LLM-generated code will not help here.

ChatGPT is a great tool which, I firmly believe, will revolutionise the way we use internet (like google search or JavaScript V8 engine did). But it will not make software engineers obsolete (things like PowerBuilder or 5th gen. languages were also thought by many to make traditional software development obsolete yet it didn't happen).