There's some whistling past the graveyard in these comments. "You still need humans for the social element...", "LLMs are bad at debugging", "LLMs lead you astray". And yeah, there's lots of truth in those assertions, but since I started playing with LLMs to generate code a couple of years ago they've made huge strides. I suspect that over the next couple of years the improvements won't be quite as large (Pareto Principle), but I do expect we'll still see some improvement.
Was on r/fpga recently and mentioned that I had had a lot of success recently in getting LLMs to code up first-cut testbenches that allow you to simulate your FPGA/HDL design a lot quicker than if you were to write those testbenches yourself and my comment was met with lots of derision. But they hadn't even given it a try to form their conclusion that it just couldn't work.
Was on r/fpga recently and mentioned that I had had a lot of success recently in getting LLMs to code up first-cut testbenches that allow you to simulate your FPGA/HDL design a lot quicker than if you were to write those testbenches yourself and my comment was met with lots of derision. But they hadn't even given it a try to form their conclusion that it just couldn't work.