alt Hacker News> How's the non-programmer going to tell the LLM to use Docker? They don't know what Docker is.
At this point, I think you are intentionally missing the point.
The non-programmer doesn't need to know about Docker, or race conditions, or memory leaks, or virtual functions. The programmer says "make me a web site" and the LLM figures it out. It will use an appropriate language and appropriate libraries. If appropriate, it will use Docker, and if not, it won't. If the non-programmer wants to change hosting, he can say so, and the LLM will change the hosting.
The level of abstraction goes up. The details that we've spent our lives thinking about are no longer relevant.
It's really not that complicated.
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How does the non-programmer know about hosting? They just want a burger site. What's hosting? Is that like Facebook?
To maybe get out of this loop: your entire thesis is that nonfunctional requirements don't matter, which is a silly assertion. Anyone who has done any kind of software development work knows that nonfunctional requirements are important, which is why they exist in the first place.
And then the user says “LLM make this slight change to my website” and suddenly the website is subtly different in 100 different ways and users are confused and frustrated and they massively hemorrhage customers.