> the most valuable commodity is engineers knowing WTF is going on, and that loss of understanding of your codebase is the #1 blocker to actually getting things done
Perfectly said. It was true before LLMs too.
As I've been reviewing more and more LLM code, I've noticed that while good developers can use LLMs to produce good code maybe 1x-5x faster (depending on circumstances), bad developers can use LLMs to produce bad code 1000x faster. And if you are collecting metrics that only capture that 1000x number, I bet you feel great about what you're doing.
Perfectly said. It was true before LLMs too.
As I've been reviewing more and more LLM code, I've noticed that while good developers can use LLMs to produce good code maybe 1x-5x faster (depending on circumstances), bad developers can use LLMs to produce bad code 1000x faster. And if you are collecting metrics that only capture that 1000x number, I bet you feel great about what you're doing.