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Some thoughts on LLMs and software development

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416 points floverfelt | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 18:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.237s | source
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ares623 ◴[28 Aug 25 19:56 UTC] No.45056350[source]▶
> Other forms of engineering have to take into account the variability of the world.

> Maybe LLMs mark the point where we join our engineering peers in a world on non-determinism.

Those other forms of engineering have no choice due to the nature of what they are engineering.

Software engineers already have a way to introduce determinism into the systems they build! We’re going backwards!

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1. delusional ◴[28 Aug 25 20:02 UTC] No.45056412[source]▶
I would rather say it like this: Very good, very hardworking engineers spent years of their lives building the machine that raised us from the non-determinism of messy physical reality. The technology that brought us perfect, replicable, and reliable math from sending electrons through rocks has been deeply underappreciated in the "software revolution".

The engineers at TSMC, Intel, Global Foundries, Samsung, and others have done us an amazing service, and we are throwing all that hard work away.