I think it says more about the amount of automation we left on the table in the last few decades. So much of the code LLM's can generate are stuff that we should have completely abstracted away by now.
A large amount of code is likely just idiosynchratic information processing, because we don’t agree on data models and meaning of terms and structure of protocols.
Also we repeatedly choose easy and popular over alternatives that would require design and scrutiny.
This is why things like language models and vector databases are useful. It’s basically the most expensive way possible to give up on that notion.
> A large amount of code is likely just idiosynchratic information processing, because we don’t agree on data models and meaning of terms and structure of protocols.
Yes this is a big part of what I'm talking about!
> Also we repeatedly choose easy and popular over alternatives that would require design and scrutiny.
Agreed!
But I'm also thinking of UI. We had stuff like winforms and Delphi ~3 decades ago and I yearn for the wysisyg. It's so incredibly stupid we keep reinventing the wheel on UI, and I say this as someone who has written UI code professionally for the last decade. I usually just "vibe code" it now, not because it's necessarily faster, but because I just can't be arsed to keep writing the same shit over and over again. It's all self inflicted, yes UI can be complicated, but we make it at least two orders of magnitude more complicated than it needs to be.
I'm working on my own tools for building UI's in a visual way, which is crucial for doing anything artistic. Insane that the best we have right now is stuff like Wix and Wordpress...
