> Is it an issue? you could think that in the long term it'll be

reminds me of all the PHP spaghetti code that would float around because it was "quick and easy" -- eventually that all becomes brittle and someone has to come in and rearchitect it from scratch

you may not pay the price, but your successor will

but then again, you could say that's your employer's problem, not yours (and you'd be right)

the biggest problem is the future, not the present. Presently, we -- you, I, others -- still have the skill and experience to look inside the box and understand it, guide the LLM to make smarter decisions, etc.

not only will those skills atrophy in ourselves, but the younger generation won't even develop them in the first place. eventually you have almost no one who understands anything about how things work, they just know how to issue high level commands. It's like if eventually everyone working at CERN just knows how to push the buttons on the LHC but doesn't understand much beyond that. That's where we are heading.