# What Is Software, and Will LLMs Replace It?

DevFeed: [What Is Software, and Will LLMs Replace It?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-is-software-and-will-llms-replace-it-20750.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tomassetti.me/what-is-software-llms-interface-layer/>)

Author: Federico Tomassetti

Published: 2026-06-23T08:56:06Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Federico Tomassetti](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/federico-tomassetti.md>)

Topics: [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [integrity](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/integrity.md>), [Software as a service](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/saas.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [business](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/business.md>), [chatbots](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chatbots.md>), [consistency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/consistency.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [future-of-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/future-of-ai.md>), [future-of-software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/future-of-software.md>), [integrity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/integrity.md>), [interfaces](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/interfaces.md>), [language-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/language-engineering.md>), [llms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llms.md>), [mcp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mcp.md>), [opinion](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/opinion.md>), [patterns](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/patterns.md>), [reflections](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reflections.md>), [saas](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/saas.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [software-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-development.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>), [structure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/structure.md>), [visualization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/visualization.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that large language models are unlikely to replace software. Instead, they may provide more flexible interfaces while software's underlying structures--organized data, schemas, constraints, consistency rules, visualizations, and guided processes--remain essential.

## Source excerpt

Software isn't being replaced by LLMs, it's being fronted by them, with the deterministic core (schemas, constraints, processes) staying as essential as ever. The post What Is Software, and Will LLMs Replace It? appeared first on Federico Tomassetti.