> It is a bit weird to see LLMs suddenly being presented as the reason to follow what are basically long standing best practices.

Maybe it's the speed of LLM iteration that makes the benefit more immediately obvious, vs seeing it unfold with a team of people over a longer time? It's almost like running a study?

I have a similar reaction to strong static types being advocated to help LLMs understanding/debugging code, catching bugs, refactoring... when it's obvious to me this helps humans as well.

Curious how "this practice helps LLMs be more productive" relates to studies that try to show this with human programmers, where running convincing human studies is really difficult. Besides problems with context sizes, are there best practices that help LLMs a lot but not humans?