Outside of my own specialty I can people in the software industry bogged down by managing excessive boilerplate. I think this happens most often in web dev and data science.
In my opinion this is an indication that the software tools for those ecosystems need improvement, but rather than putting in the design effort to improve the tools in the ecosystem, these Big Data companies see an opportunity to just throw LLMs at it and call it a commercial product.
putting in the design effort to improve the tools in the ecosystem
They have. The problem is that they generally cause as many problems as they solve. Adding another layer in software is often as harmful as it is helpful.
LLMs are nice in this regard, because they don’t really add another layer, but they do take care of the excessive boilerplate that’s easily understandable.
Outside of my own specialty I can people in the software industry bogged down by managing excessive boilerplate. I think this happens most often in web dev and data science.
In my opinion this is an indication that the software tools for those ecosystems need improvement, but rather than putting in the design effort to improve the tools in the ecosystem, these Big Data companies see an opportunity to just throw LLMs at it and call it a commercial product.
They have. The problem is that they generally cause as many problems as they solve. Adding another layer in software is often as harmful as it is helpful.
LLMs are nice in this regard, because they don’t really add another layer, but they do take care of the excessive boilerplate that’s easily understandable.