alt Hacker NewsImo this is a problematic way of thinking.
I've been doing a lot of devops lately, writing tons of templates, configs, scripts in like 3 programming languages, wrestling with 'cloud-based' constructs - with LLMs ofc.
LLMs make all this work easy, otherwise it'd be borderline impossible.
It's all BS. Hosting a CRUD app should be an executable for the server (written in boring lang/lib of my choice) + an SQLite db. Of course it's a bit more than that, but not by much.
There are wonderful IDEs and tools out there which help humans do the task, and good design keeps the complexity under control.
LLMs on the other hand both are sources of the mess and solutions to it. Without good tooling you'll be much more inclined to reach for an LLM.
> LLMs make all this work easy, otherwise it'd be borderline impossible.
This is exactly it. We all know and envy that guy who can bang out a script on demand that makes any task simple, and we also know we'll never be that guy.
LLMs are superhuman knowledge remixers. And that's exactly what we need to deal with a lot of software development tasks.