About whether LLMs could make programming interesting again by handling boilerplate.
Has this happened?
Yes 93 (83%)Not sure 9 (8%)No 10 (9%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether LLMs could make programming interesting again by handling boilerplate.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Well, the interesting question is whether LLMs will enable programming to go back to being interesting.
So much of programming is rote boilerplate garbage simply linking things together and so little of it is actual creative thought. If LLMs could actually generate the rote boilerplate, programming would be soooo much better.
Alas, my optimism isn't that high.