It really depends on how you use it. I’ve switched up how I interact with LLMs repeatedly over the years, as the technology has developed.

Now, it’s at the point where it’s like running a development team of very eager amnesiacs. I’ve found the trick is exhaustive documentation by a lead agent, and then having a fresh agent work as a coordinator across as many subtasks as the project sensibly allows. This way the individual components stay on spec, as does the ultimate integration. It’s only really this year that this workflow has started to actually function, and it still needs human supervision - but less and less over time.

I give it two years, tops, and everyone everywhere is building bespoke software because it’s trivially easy.