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But when would they not have the help of an LLM? We are all dependent on the tools we use. That's not a bad thing. The biggest risk is that it perhaps becomes

But when would they not have the help of an LLM? We are all dependent on the tools we use. That's not a bad thing. The biggest risk is that it perhaps becomes more difficult to sift out bad developers from good ones, because LLMs let bad developers "cheat" more easily. But that's not a new problem, just a new era of the same problem.

rurp 3y ago
If the best coding LLMs end up monopolized as much as most areas of the tech industry it will be very easy to lose access. Take mobile app development for example. If you piss off the wrong person or algorithm at Apple or Google then poof, half the market will evaporate for you. Corporate LLMs have and will monitor every single prompt entered and if the company doesn't like you for any reason, related or unrelated to your coding they will ban your access with no recourse. If open source LLMs are able to compete with the state of the art long term then I'm a lot more optimistic, but I'm skeptical they will be able to keep pace given the immense technical, financial, and lobbying resources the big players are certain to invest in the coming years.