No one really. Code is for humans to read and for machines to compile and execute. Llms are enabling people to just write the code and not have anyone read it. It’s solving a problem that didn’t really exist (we already had code generators before llms).
It’s such an intoxicating copyright-abuse slot machine that a buddy who is building an ocaml+htmx tree editor told me “I always get stuck and end up going to the llm to generate code. Usually when I get to the html part.” I asked if he used a debugger before that, he said “that’s a good idea”.
This is something I've been wondering about...
If boilerplate was such a big issue, we should have worked on improving code generation. In fact, many tools and frameworks exist that did this already:
- rails has fantastic code generation for CRUD use cases
- intelliJ IDEs have been able to do many types of refactors and class generation that included some of the boilerplate
I haven't reached a conclusion on this train of thought yet, though.