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Not a chance.

For your personal projects or as a hobby, absolutely. But in a professional setting, coding by hand gone forever.

At work I've spent the last few weeks building a big feature that involves streaming the output of a 3D engine to a web client and wiring in HID from the client back to the engine. Basically, it's a simplified version of Google Stadia.

I've written >90% this code by hand.

The unfortunate truth is you spent the last few weeks writing it by hand when you could have done it in a few days with an LLM.

>The unfortunate truth is you spent the last few weeks writing it by hand when you could have done it in a few days with an LLM.

And I would have learned nothing, and the feature wouldn't be understood by the team.

Please tell me about the companies that are seeing productivity gains from LLM usage, seriously, who’s software is getting better?

Writing code has never been the bottleneck. System design, testing, integration, CI/CD, etc. These have always been the things that were the most time consuming and thought intensive. Those haven't changed as much.

However, if you don't think there are productivity gains by several orders of magnitude when actually writing the code, you're either using it wrong or you were the fastest dev in all the land.

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