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The problem with this is that you don't know what you don't know. I've actually used Claude to build a project in a framework that I haven't worked with before and it got me pretty far. Once I got that reviewed by someone who actually knew the framework it was terribly structured, not using higher level constructs to organize things, wasn't using idiomatic approaches - stuff I could easily confirm myself after going through the official docs.
I think using LLMs to skip learning from official sources is a bad move, you're bound to hit a wall with LLM (at the very least the training data cutoff could be before something changed in the framework), you'll have to deep dive into the docs and figure it out.
That is to say - sure you can pass the interview with LLM only - but you'll suck at the job. If you invest some effort upfront to learn from traditional sources and then use LLM to speed you up it's going to pay off really fast IMO. The more I know about what the output should be the more useful LLMs are.
You say the docs contain guidance on structuring, high-level constructs, and how to make things idiomatic. It would be an interesting test to hand the unfixed revision of the code to an LLM while also giving it the docs, and say “make any fixes to make this conform to standards of the framework and libraries”.
If it picks up the same things that’s great news for novice programmers and anyone new to a framework!
LLMs will improve at making these fixes over time - even if they’re currently bad at it that won’t last.
My hope is 2030 sees more organizations that are each smaller. It implies more services provided by the economy thanks to greater specialization. For example today, SaaS tools exist for so many things you’d have had to hire for in the past. Thanks to SaaS you can get started really easily - take payments, get a storefront, send email newsletters..
If the trend of increasing specialization crosses over and starts to include services that require intelligence, it will be a net good on a scale we can’t imagine.
The megaliths of today also have more market power than optimal, hence so much anti-consumer shenanigans.
Bring on the layoffs!
It is capitalism that has been hacked.
Super exciting to see competition working.