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Re:The Future of Software Development Is Software Developers by theshrike79 on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @10:58AM (#46434608)
In this analogy you're clearly a private chef with clients who have very specific wishes and allergies.

The rest of us are just pumping out CRUD-burgers off the API assembly line. Not exactly groundbreaking stuff.

LLMs are really good with burgers, but not so much being a private chef.

Re:The Future of Software Development Is Software Developers by sarchertech on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @12:50PM (#46435924)
Every useful CRUD app becomes its own special snowflake with time and users.

Now if your CRUD app never gets any users sure it stays generic. But we’ve had low code solutions that solve this problem for decades.

LLMs are good at stuff that probably should have been low code in the first place, but couldn’t be for reasons. That’s useful, but it comes with a ton of trade offs. And these kind of solutions covet a lot less ground than you’d think.

Re:The Future of Software Development Is Software Developers by theshrike79 on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @03:07PM (#46437396)
I'm old enough to remember the "OMG low-code is going to take our jeeeerbbs!" panic :D

Like LLMs they took away a _very_ specific segment of software, Zapier, n8n, NodeRED etc. do some things in a way that bespoke apps can't - but they also hit a massive hard wall where you either need to do some really janky shit or just break out Actual Code to get forward.