I keep telling anyone who gets overexcited about gen-ai and coding that software engineering is “20% syntax and 80% wisdom”. LLMs are great at syntax but less

I keep telling anyone who gets overexcited about gen-ai and coding that software engineering is “20% syntax and 80% wisdom”. LLMs are great at syntax but less great at wisdom. Perhaps this won’t be true for all time, but it’s true enough for now. Refreshingly, it seems I’m not the only one who thinks so.