What if software shipped with a software engineer?

A recent experiment made the rounds showing an LLM acting as the whole application: every HTTP request is handled by the model, that designs schemas, renders HTML, and mutates state through tool calls: “Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing?”. It worked — barely. It was slow, expensive, and visually inconsistent. But it surfaced a useful question: if inference keeps getting cheaper and…