Not sure where LLMs will be in 5 years, can only talk about today and make some guesses about the future. I use LLMs cause it takes care of the syntax and leav

Not sure where LLMs will be in 5 years, can only talk about today and make some guesses about the future. I use LLMs cause it takes care of the syntax and leaves me more time to think about the logic and how everything is connected together. LLMs still lack in the latter category. For one-off tasks, it's truly a time saver. In the future, I see people trying to do more complex stuff with chains of LLM calls (already happening but it's still a WIP). Break a complex task into sub-tasks, then solve them sequentially to achieve something non-trivial in the end. I'm a bit skeptical though - not so much because of my skepticism of LLMs in general but more about humans not being good at maintaining code bases they didn't write (often even with code that wrote). You cannot trust LLMs to also maintain the codebase. There's too much context about the life of the code, all the dependencies, and even business logic, that is missing.