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• @hansolo@lemmy.today 2026-10-31 20:50

  Not really. LLMs do great at what’s expected cheap and fast. So for needs that are already well-worn territory, yes LLMs will do great. Do you need basic HTML, CSS and JS? Great, that’s a perfect use case. Easily handed by any LLM Are you coding a bespoke system that is unique in an obscure language? LLMs will suck at that. There’s a lot in between. It’s more about the bulk of people doing basic coding work where an LLM can get it 60% right that you’re taking about. Ok, so here’s another example. You likely don’t bake all your own bread. People used to either bake their own, or get it from their local artisan. You can, and many people do, still bake their own bread. I bake maybe 20% of my own bread. Many people also buy from artisan bakeries with $8 loaves of sourdough. The skill was never lost, but the bulk of basic unfancy needs are easily handled by generic, basic bread. And a lot of people are fine with buying garbage white bread made by a machine and never touched by human hands. You know what’s actually a lot of work to make? Plain-ass white bread, perfectly sliced. It’s a great time savings if that’s what you need. I brew beer, too, and you know what’s a total pain to make by hand? Basic-ass light beer. I make stouts, and would never waste the time on a basic, $2/bottle light beer. But a batch of my own stout, vs. paying $8 a bottle for fancy stouts? Yeah, I’ll make it myself. Even if I make it with help from some malt extract, it’s still better and cheaper than artisinal beers, and it’s what I want for myself. The vast, vast majority of people on Earth think ramen is nothing more than noodle packets with shit broth. I love making a 2-day tonkatsu broth. Really develop the flavors, simmer for 12-18 hours. Cook the egg just right… Love it because it’s worth it. But if I’m starving and need something fast… Maybe I would eat a cheap ramen packet. With food, there are hundreds of similar examples. No one has lost the skills, but that also doesn’t mean that everything needs to be done artisinally all the time. We do this all the time in life. Just because this is the iteration that happened when you were an adult doesn’t make it unique or unusual. We’ve done this as a species often. Once a generation, or so.

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