I think there's a gap of problems between CRUD and novel. I imagine novel to be very difficult, unsolved problems that would take some of the best in the industry to figure out. CRUD problems are really basic reading/writing data to a database with occasional business logic.
But there's also bespoke problems. They aren't quite novel, yet are complicated and require a lot of inside knowledge on business edge cases that aren't possible to sum up in a word document. Having worked with a lot of companies, I can tell you most businesses literally cannot sum up their requirements, and I'm usually teaching them how their business works. These bespoke problems also have big implications on how the app is deployed and run, which is a whole different thing.
Then you have LLMs, which seem allergic to requirements. If you tell an LLM "make this app, but don't do these 4 things," it's very different from saying "don't do these 12 things." It's more likely to hallucinate, and when you tell it to please remember requirement #3, it forgets requirement #7.
Well, my job is doing things with lots of restraints. And until I can get AI to read those things without hallucinating, it won't be helpful to me.
But there's also bespoke problems. They aren't quite novel, yet are complicated and require a lot of inside knowledge on business edge cases that aren't possible to sum up in a word document. Having worked with a lot of companies, I can tell you most businesses literally cannot sum up their requirements, and I'm usually teaching them how their business works. These bespoke problems also have big implications on how the app is deployed and run, which is a whole different thing.
Then you have LLMs, which seem allergic to requirements. If you tell an LLM "make this app, but don't do these 4 things," it's very different from saying "don't do these 12 things." It's more likely to hallucinate, and when you tell it to please remember requirement #3, it forgets requirement #7.
Well, my job is doing things with lots of restraints. And until I can get AI to read those things without hallucinating, it won't be helpful to me.