1-2 years probably. There will still be a question around who determines what "adequately" is for a while though. Presumably even if an LLM can do something in

1-2 years probably. There will still be a question around who determines what "adequately" is for a while though. Presumably even if an LLM can do something in theory you wouldn't actually want it doing anything without human oversight. And we should keep in mind that to understand a code change in depth is often just as much work as making the change. When review PRs I don't really know exactly what every change is doing. I certain haven't tested it to be 100% certain I understand fully. I'm just checking the logic looks mostly right and that I don't see anything clearly wrong, and even then I'll often need to ask for clarifications why something was done. I can't imagine LLMs being used in most large code bases for a while yet. They'd probably need to be 99.9% reliable before we can start trusting them to make changes without verifying every line.