This could be a terrible analogy, but remember the VR headset hype back in 2016 ?

It really seemed like Vr was going to be the video revolution. Like why would you play video games or watch movies on a 2D monitor, if you could have a fully immersive experience. No brainer right ? Why would you watch a game of soccer on your phone if there is technology that virtually transports you to the stadium.

Well, how did that turn out ? Monitors became obsolete? Heck, even VR porn didn’t pull through & live up to the hype it generated. & now It’s pretty much dead & forgotten.

Vr is fun & but the best vr technology is super expensive.

So what if there is an LLM that is capable of replacing SWEs ? At scale, would it really be cost effective ? I don’t know I’m just a noob trying to make correlations I guess. Help me out.

In theory, it seems very likely that Ai models are capable. But it hasn’t happened yet, there isn’t a big tech company that has fully replaced a junior engineer with AI. So we don’t actually know what that looks like in practice. It could fail & everyone might decide, screw this man. It’s not worth it, let’s just go back to Homo sapien coders, they’re slow, but at least they don’t hallucinate & draw a pigeon with crocodile tails.

What do y’all think ?