I have an assumption that inference tokens are only going to get cheaper, I admit. We could get at least 10x efficiency savings by burning current models to ASICs. But today they're cheap enough to let the machine churn - that's the environment I'm making decisions in.
> I would respectfully disagree about the value of unit tests as well.
I honestly don't think the LLM-generated tests are at all valuable in a human sense. I get the impression the end result is "fewer bugs" (but I've never tried to prove that). That's why I'm happy for the LLM to have a directory it can write its own tests in. It's a scratch space.
> this probably results in orders of magnitude more code being written/changed than would have been necessary for a skilled developer working on a well-maintained code base to solve the original problem
Nothing gets committed in my name that I don't understand. I'm one of the people LLMs are actually making slightly slower, because I insist on reviewing the code and working single-threaded.