{"id":1309,"date":"2023-04-18T22:19:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T03:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer_musings\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2025-09-07T14:08:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T14:08:05","slug":"will-llm-replace-programmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/2023\/04\/will-llm-replace-programmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Will LLM Replace Programmers?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This deserves a much bigger write-up. But, with ChatGPT taking up so much mind share lately, I have an observation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During my career, I&#8217;ve seen several technologies or approaches that would allow <em>non-programmers<\/em> to write systems, and replace those expensive programmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The claims that I can think of right off<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Fourth generation languages<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Writing programs in plain English&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&lt;acronym title=&#8221;Computer Aided Software Enginieering&#8221;&gt;CASE&lt;\/acronym&gt; tools<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Expert Systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Visual\/Block programming<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Even Visual Basic was touted as a way for anyone to program. (There are definitely others that I don&#8217;t remember.) Most of these have either become niche, a very focused tool, or have fallen by the wayside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the main reason I remain skeptical of ChatGPT (or Co-pilot, or <em>insert LLM tool here<\/em>) for now. I expect they will eventually turn into some kind of specialized tool that are used in certain circumstances, but will not radically change the way software is developed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This deserves a much bigger write-up. But, with ChatGPT taking up so much mind share lately, I have an observation. During my career, I&#8217;ve seen several technologies or approaches that would allow non-programmers to write systems, and replace those expensive programmers. The claims that I can think of right off Even Visual Basic was touted\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/2023\/04\/will-llm-replace-programmers\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[198,224,337],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1384,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}