LLMs Won't Replace Programmers https://zed.dev/blog/why-llms-cant-build-software A provocative post by Konrad Irwin from ZED. He says that LLMs are quite good at generating code, updating it when problems are found, and running tests. But human engineers don't work like that: they build mental models of what the code does and what it should do - then perform updates based on that. AI agents do not create a mental model of the project and simply generate code that resembles the best code they ...
