I agree, I think this false dichotomy between using LLMs and caring about quality/reliability needs to stop. All these mission critical industries listed in the article rely on extensive testing for quality assurance, with human code review being a layer on top of all that, but far from the most critical one.
Interpretability is the same, our abilities to do that have increased rather than decreased. I think a codebase generated by AI is actually more understandable than one generated by humans at this point, and you can ask clarifying questions whenever you get stuck.
TFA's points only make sense if the mental model the author has in mind is someone who writes a prompt then immediately puts an app into production without any thought behind it.
Interpretability is the same, our abilities to do that have increased rather than decreased. I think a codebase generated by AI is actually more understandable than one generated by humans at this point, and you can ask clarifying questions whenever you get stuck.
TFA's points only make sense if the mental model the author has in mind is someone who writes a prompt then immediately puts an app into production without any thought behind it.