But he also asserts you're going to get a 5x productivity increase... STEVE, IT'S A TRAP, and you know better. Only if you spend 100% of your time coding!
We suck at writing requirements because when we write code we learn more about the solution space. So feedback and iteration are vital. I see how putting an LLM in the loop makes all that faster... and hopefully more accessible to non-coders too. You should iterate in the cheapest medium you have (like wireframes, design docs, whiteboards), and that's rarely going to be hand-written code.
@randometc I suspect that the (still partial) transition to HLLs, RISC, and interpreted languages is a valuable comparison here. That also involved programmers giving up valuable kinds of control for other valuable things. (Disclaimer: have not used any commercial LLM.)
@vruba yes absolutely. We have decades of evidence that you can fix code with code, despite knowing that bugs are proportional to the amount of code you have. I embrace this paradox.