alt Hacker News> which leads to the actual problem I think.
Getting there faster with less knowledge of coding isn't the problem.
Pre LLMs, the main barrier to producing software for non-tech people was writing the code, literally. With LLMs, this barrier is now gone. This results in a much larger volume of slop than before. And then the real barrier shows up -- understanding, fool-proofing and maintaining that code. Code is cheap, show me how it runs in prod.
Like it's great that quants can iterate on their ideas much faster now. But GS is saying they shouldn't leave their sandbox.
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> Pre LLMs, the main barrier to producing software for non-tech people was writing the code, literally.
Based of my several rounds of discussions about every features, non-tech people usually have several unknown unknows about their idea. Their requests are usually one sentence or one paragraph, and then to flesh it out requires several back and forth which usually start with “I didn’t think about that”.
It’s like how everyone has seen people draw, play music, or build an house. But when the time to do so, they’re hopeless to replicate it. Because what you see is just surface level.
> But GS is saying they shouldn't leave their sandbox.
Exactly
Elephant in the room is QA, the thing that disappeared when Agile took over the world.