alt Hacker NewsLLMs can build anything. The real question is what is worth building, and how it’s delivered. That is what is still human. LLMs, by nature of not being human, cannot understand humans as well as other humans can. (See every attempt at using an LLM as a therapist)
In short: LLMs will eventually be able to architect software. But it’s still just a tool
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What is the use of software eng/architect at that point? It's a tool, but one that product or C levels can use directly as I see it?
FWIW I find LLMs to be excellent therapists.
The commercial solutions probably don't work because they don't use the best SOTA models and/or sully the context with all kinds of guardrails and role-playing nonsense, but if you just open a new chat window in your LLM of choice (set to the highest thinking paid-tier model), it gives you truly excellent therapist advice.
In fact in many ways the LLM therapist is actually better than the human, because e.g. you can dump a huge, detailed rant in the chat and it will actually listen to (read) every word you said.
> LLMs can build anything.
This is only possibly true if one of two things are true:
1. All new software can be made up of of preexisting patterns of software that can be composed. ie: There is no such thing as "novel" software, it's all just composition of existing software.
2. LLMs are capable of emergent intelligence, allowing them to express patterns that they were not trained on.
I am extremely skeptical that either of these is true.