> I have now created 5 hyper narrow programs that are used daily by my company to do work. I am not a programmer and my company is not a tech company located in a tech bubble. We are a tiny company that does old school manufacturing.
OK, great.
> That you are trying to use LLMs to create giant sprawling codebase feature packed software packages that define the modern software landscape. What's being missed is that any one user might only utilize 5% of the code base on any given day. Software is written to accommodate every need every user could have in one package. Then the users just use the small slice that accommodates their specific needs.
With all due respect, the fact that you made a few small programs to help with your tasks is wonderful but this last statement alone rather disqualifies your expertise to make an assessment on software engineering in general.
There's a great number of reasons why codebases get large. Complex problems inherently come with complexity and scale in both code and integrations. You can choose to move the complexity around but never fully get rid of it.
OK, great.
> That you are trying to use LLMs to create giant sprawling codebase feature packed software packages that define the modern software landscape. What's being missed is that any one user might only utilize 5% of the code base on any given day. Software is written to accommodate every need every user could have in one package. Then the users just use the small slice that accommodates their specific needs.
With all due respect, the fact that you made a few small programs to help with your tasks is wonderful but this last statement alone rather disqualifies your expertise to make an assessment on software engineering in general.
There's a great number of reasons why codebases get large. Complex problems inherently come with complexity and scale in both code and integrations. You can choose to move the complexity around but never fully get rid of it.