A post shared by antirezthat resonated with me (as of January 2026). LLMs, even with no future performance improvements, are here to stay and will fundamentally change the jobs of people that write or interact with code. Not using them for a majority of tasks will be like using C for data science analyses, rather than higher-level abstractions.

To add to his post, I think that LLM+human will still outperform LLM-only for most complex work especially within legacy architectures for the next years.

I also hope he is right with his generally positive sentiment about the future:

How do I feel, about all the code I wrote that was ingested by LLMs? I feel great to be part of that, because I see this as a continuation of what I tried to do all my life: democratizing code, systems, knowledge. LLMs are going to help us to write better software, faster, and will allow small teams to have a chance to compete with bigger companies. The same thing open source software did in the 90s.