>When you've earned your opinions about architecture and code quality the hard way, they feel less like textbook rules and more like scar tissue.

I don't think it's common for any compsci programs to (competently at least) teach architecture and code quality.

>The honest truth is that in the last few months, there have been days when I have spent close to two full days writing a plan for an LLM to execute: obsessively clarifying, specifying, re-specifying, only to have it still do something inexplicably stupid.

It's because LLMs are actually taking us back in time to the pre-agile days where there was a career path (architect) that involved almost nothing but painstaking spec authoring and endless meetings to review and course correct the work of the engineers whose job was to implement what you designed as closely as possible. I have to emphasize that this was a different career path than what we think of as a senior engineer today. Not everyone likes this.