Re:AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad...
by roncesvalles on Saturday March 14, 2026 @01:04PM
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I think it's easy to forget that the LLM is not a magic oracle. It doesn't give great answers. What you do with the LLM's output determines whether the engineering you produce is good or bad. There are places where you can plonk in the LLM's output as-is and places you can't, or times when you have to keep nudging for a better output, and times when nothing the LLM produces is worth keeping.
It makes bad engineering easier because it's easy to fall into the trap of "if the LLM said so, it must be right".
It makes bad engineering easier because it's easy to fall into the trap of "if the LLM said so, it must be right".