Meanwhile, as I read this, the very next link on HN after this one is: https://windsurf.com/blog/windsurf-wave-9-swe-1 https://windsurf.com/blog/windsurf-wave-9

Meanwhile, as I read this, the very next link on HN after this one is: https://windsurf.com/blog/windsurf-wave-9-swe-1 https://windsurf.com/blog/windsurf-wave-9-swe-1 in which Windsurf is forging ahead with an agentic LLM product that endeavors to not only replace software engineers but actually take over the entire software engineering PROCESS. We're at a very interesting point, where investors and corporate interests are crystal clear in their intent to use LLMs to replace as many expensive humans as possible, while the technology available to do so is not there yet. And depending on your own perspective, it's not clear it ever will be, or perhaps it'll eventually be "good enough" for them to downsize us anyway. I keep thinking about compilers. The old timers had been writing assembly by hand for years. The early C compilers were producing defective garbage output that was so incredibly poor that it was faster to keep coding by hand. Then the compilers got better. And better, and better, and now pretty much nobody inspects the output, let alone questions it.