> There is something legendary and historic happening in software engineering, right now as we speak, and yet most of you don’t realize at all how big it is. >

> There is something legendary and historic happening in software engineering, right now as we speak, and yet most of you don’t realize at all how big it is. > LLMs aren’t just the biggest change since social, mobile, or cloud–they’re the biggest thing since the World Wide Web. And on the coding front, they’re the biggest thing since IDEs and Stack Overflow, and may well eclipse them both. I use ChatGPT pretty regularly but it is beyond my understanding how people can make such strong statements about the future so confidently based on the information we have now. This prediction may well come true but the justification for it is pretty vague. Sure AWS used to be a small demo and now it very useful and worth a lot of money but you could apply this example to anything and not every technology has a similar success story. Anyone who is this confident about the future is trying to sell you something. In this case it looks like Sourcegraph's Cody.