The shape of things to come?
TL;DR (by Mistral): Advanced LLMs now implement complex coding tasks in minutes, leaving me—once overflowing with fun private project ideas—struggling to keep up with imagining what to build next, not just building it. The bottleneck shifts from coding to creativity.
Okay, I'm running out of "private development for fun backlog". This has never happened before.
I met my first computer, a CBM 3032, when I was 12. Since then I love developing software. As I'm not doing this so much in my job anymore, I'm doing this in my private time. Much of my spare time is spent writing a lot of little apps for me (sometimes for others).
And my situation always was "20 ideas in my mind, working on 3, slowly making progress". Until now.
It started with Claude 4 Sonnet. All of a sudden, if you specify a major change you want for a private project (mine range from 1000 to 10k lines of code, JS or python), the LLM, integrated into Cursor, will just do it. In 5 minutes. Flawlessly (in terms of functionality, I am only briefly glancing through the code which looks okay enough).
This got even better with GPT-5, and now with Claude 4.5 Sonnet. In the last week GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.5 built major new features for my apps within minutes (stuff that would have occupied me for many weeks), each one from a single specification prompt, without rework.
And so, last night, I had trouble falling asleep because I couldn't think of new features I want the AIs to implement.
At the same time I observe that the scale of a piece of software that an LLM can confidently deal with grows with every quarter. Not long ago you needed to guide it method by method, then class by class. Now, if your software is not 100k lines or larger, the LLM will be competent in performing major changes to it.
I was always sure that AIs will not take our jobs, because in the digital industry you can scale up the speed of shipping new features arbitrarily, so instead of firing devs you can just do much more with the same devs.
But what happens if we run out of ideas what to build, because the AIs will build them faster than you can create them?
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