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agumonkey01/04/20262 repliesview on HN

I really wonder what long term software engineering projects will become.


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baq01/04/2026

‘Why were they long term?’ is what you need to ask. Code has become essentially free in relative terms, both in time and money domains. What stands out now is validation - LLMs aren’t oracles for better or worse, complex code still needs to be tested and this takes time and money, too. In projects where validation was a significant percentage of effort (which is every project developed by more than two teams) the speed up from LLM usage will be much less pronounced… until they figure out validation, too; and they just might with formal methods.

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beginnings01/04/2026

anything nontrivial is still long term, nothing has changed