Yeah in a lot of ways, my assertion is that @ “Code is cheap” actually means the opposite of what everyone thinks it does. Software Engineer is even more about the practices we’ve been developing over the past 20 or so years, not less

Like Linus’ observation still stands. Show me that the code you provided does exactly what you think it should. It’s easy to prompt a few lines into an LLM, it’s another thing to know exactly the way to safely and effectively change low level code.

Liz Fong-Jones told a story on LinkedIn about this at HoneyComb, she got called out for dropping a bad set of PR’s in a repo, because she didn’t really think about the way the change was presented.