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Some 20 years ago we got the WYSIWYG era of development. You could just point and click and create websites – no programming needed! (It seemed) Now we are in the WYGIWYG era with LLM based development. What you get, is what you get. Your systems dictate your requirements, by limitations.

It is currently no different with GPT-5. You can even clearly see it in videos trying to hype it up as much as possible: youtu.be/BUDmHYI6e3g?... When getting limitations on fictive requirements (demos) we just adjust our requirements. In real life, we don’t have that luxury.

The problem with demos vs real life has never been bigger. LLMs show really impressive demos – like, really impressive. But it is under a false pretence. It has been the same with images for a while. You are either happy with what you get, or forget about it.

As I’ve said before, this doesn’t mean LLMs are unusable even for programming. But it means we need to be honest (IMO) what its strenghts are and not. Stop trying to out-yell your next YouTuber on how this time everything really has changed. Demos are not the best parameter for evaluating tech.