First, LLMs will reduce complexity. And for somewhat obvious reasons: the world of open source shares a massive collection of solutions to common messy problems in programming languages and API usage, and so for the past two decades of the internet, the problem hasn’t been so much about solving those problems, but finding the solutions that someone has already written down. This was what enabled the explosive popularity of Stack Overflow and the decades of research on code search. LLM-driven code synthesis will be, and already are to an extent, better search engines for finding those solutions (albeit without giving anyone credit). This future will be a slightly better one for programmers, just like better documentation and better search has always been. It will make it easier to find the useful design patterns amidst an infinite space of wrong answers.