Impact of Automated Software Development Using Large Language Models: Capabilities, Limitations, and Future Evolution

ABSTRACT: The rapid integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the field of software engineering is very much changing the methods of coding, which, at the same time, are also being maintained and optimized. Through this article the journey of the coming of capabilities and restrictions as well as the direction of the future of software development with LLM is monitored. The authors of this article have given a detailed survey of LLM utilization in various stages of the life cycle of development organization, a number of them being code generation, bug detection, automated testing, documentation, and translation of natural language into code, productivity, quality, and accessibility being among the improvements indicated. It is demonstrated through comparative analyses that LLMs’ performance is more favorable than that of traditional and rule-based approaches, while the positions of developers, project managers, and executives as stakeholders reveal that they are both excited about the efficiency gains and, on the other hand, concerned about issues of technical reliability, data privacy, and over-reliance on automation. The main problems that LLMs are facing today—like hallucinations, being out-of-date, not having a very large context, and depending too much on prompt engineering—are plainly revealed along with the proposed solutions. Next, we consider progress in the field of multimodal and context-aware systems, autonomous software agents, continuous learning, and human-AI co-creation platforms. LLM-assisted development is likely to change the face of challenges if it is going to be fully materialized, thus bringing about the birth of a new era of collaborative, efficient, and innovative software engineering.