I've been having this thought for about a year and a half now. I have it more frequently now as LLMs get better and I see people spend more time turning their brain off when interacting with LLMs. [return]

Luke Burton had this comment:

I think being able to do this says more about the type of work being done than people think. I will only walk away from work like this if the task is quite low value, if it can afford to fail.

For high value tasks, the probability of an LLM one-shotting them is much lower. I have to assume the role of QA, engineering manager, and architect. The while loop often feels like a crunch time. I feel the nagging suspicion I've missed something and that a badly specified prompt could result in an architectural choice that needs to be undone.

Another observation is that the high throughput causes me to raise my own bar for what I ship.…