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chrisjjlast Sunday at 10:18 AM1 replyview on HN

> LLMs ... completing tasks at the scale of full engineering teams.

Ah, a work of fiction.


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bitwizetoday at 5:01 AM

StrongDM is doing it. In fact, their Attractor agentic loop, which generates, tests, and deploys code written as specs, has been released—as a spec, not code. Their installation instructions are pretty much "feed this into your LLM". They are building out not only complete applications, but test harnesses for those applications that clone popular web apps like Slack and JIRA, with no humans in the loop beyond writing the initial spec and giving final approval to deploy.

We're witnessing a "horses to automobile" moment in software development. Programming, as a professional discipline, is going to be over in a year or two on the outside. We're getting the "end of software engineering in six months" before we're getting a real "year of the Linux desktop". Or GTA VI.

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