What you are talking about here is accidental vs essential complexity as described by Brooks in the 80s.
Your claim that LLMs do away entirely with accidental complexity and manage essential complexity for you is not supported by reality. Adding these tools to workflows adds a tonne of accidental complexity, and they still cannot shield you from all the essential complexity because they are often wrong.
There have been endless noise made over semantics but the plain fact is that LLMs render output that is incongruent with reality very often. And now we are trying to remedy it with what amounts to expert systems.
There is no silver bullet. You have to painstakingly get rid of accidental complexity and tackle essential complexity in order to build complex and useful systems.
I don't understand what's so abhorrent about it that people invent layers and layers of accidental complexity trying to avoid facing simple facts. We need to understand computers and domains with high accuracy to build any useful software and that's how it's always been and how it's always gonna be.
Your claim that LLMs do away entirely with accidental complexity and manage essential complexity for you is not supported by reality. Adding these tools to workflows adds a tonne of accidental complexity, and they still cannot shield you from all the essential complexity because they are often wrong.
There have been endless noise made over semantics but the plain fact is that LLMs render output that is incongruent with reality very often. And now we are trying to remedy it with what amounts to expert systems.
There is no silver bullet. You have to painstakingly get rid of accidental complexity and tackle essential complexity in order to build complex and useful systems.
I don't understand what's so abhorrent about it that people invent layers and layers of accidental complexity trying to avoid facing simple facts. We need to understand computers and domains with high accuracy to build any useful software and that's how it's always been and how it's always gonna be.
There is no silver bullet.