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>>meetpa+(OP)
My frustration with using these models for programming in the past has largely been around their tendency to hallucinate APIs that simply don't exist. The Gemini 2.5 models, both pro and flash, seem significantly less susceptible to this than any other model I've tried.

There are still significant limitations, no amount of prompting will get current models to approach abstraction and architecture the way a person does. But I'm finding that these Gemini models are finally able to replace searches and stackoverflow for a lot of my day-to-day programming.

>>segpha+J4
> no amount of prompting will get current models to approach abstraction and architecture the way a person does

I find this sentiment increasingly worrisome. It's entirely clear that every last human will be beaten on code design in the upcoming years (I am not going to argue if it's 1 or 5 years away, who cares?)

I wished people would just stop holding on to what amounts to nothing, and think and talk more about what can be done in a new world. We need good ideas and I think this could be a place to advance them.

>>jstumm+jH
I code with multiple LLMs every day and build products that use LLM tech under the hood. I dont think we're anywhere near LLMs being good at code design. Existing models make _tons_ of basic mistakes and require supervision even for relatively simple coding tasks in popular languages, and its worse for languages and frameworks that are less represented in public sources of training data. I am _frequently_ having to tell Claude/ChatGPT to clean up basic architectural and design defects. Theres no way I would trust this unsupervised.

Can you point to _any_ evidence to support that human software development abilities will be eclipsed by LLMs other than trying to predict which part of the S-curve we're on?

>>ssalaz+gg1
> I code with multiple LLMs every day and build products that use LLM tech under the hood. I dont think we're anywhere near LLMs being good at code design.

I too use multiple LLMs every day to help with my development work. And I agree with this statement. But, I also recognize that just when we think that LLMs are hitting a ceiling, they turn around and surprise us. A lot of progress is being made on the LLMs, but also on tools like code editors. A very large number of very smart people are focused on this front and a lot of resources are being directed here.

If the question is:

Will the LLMs get good at code design in 5 years?

I think the answer is:

Very likely.

I think we will still need software devs, but not as many as we do today.

>>cheema+k12
> I think we will still need software devs, but not as many as we do today.

There is already another reply referencing Jevons Paradox, so I won't belabor that point. Instead, let me give an analogy. Imagine programmers today are like scribes and monks of 1000 years ago, and are considering the impact of the printing press. Only 5% of the population knew how to read & write, so the scribes and monks felt like they were going to be replaced. What happened is the "job" of writing language will mostly go away, but every job will require writing as a core skill. I believe the same will happen with programming. A thousand years from now, people will have a hard time imagining jobs that don't involve instructing computers in some form (just like today it's hard for us to imagine jobs that don't involve reading/writing).