This isn't just "a bit more automation". It's "now we don't need lift operators".
This isn't just "a bit more automation". It's "now we don't need lift operators".
Of course, prompting an LLM to one-shot an app is a quantum leap in comparison, but c'mon, the whole direction of the field is towards automation, abstraction, convenience. It's always trended letting the programmer write less code. Have to deal with less menial tasks. So LLMs are just the latest manifestation of that motivation. And, perhaps in a decade or two, something will come along to replace LLMs, and this conversation will happen again, except even with more desperation and despair.
But while your example exists, I don't believe that's how the industry works, yet. They're not just allowing laymen to one-shot their production software. Certainly some teams may be trying that, and some indie devs have made good money already selling vibecoded software. But I don't think the technology is good enough to auto-generate professional code at scale, without human oversight. Give it another eighteen months.