> because it takes months, years even, to notice the effects of bad architecture or of unmaintainable code.

Well said. The cost of bad architecture imposes a heavy penalty on the project down the line.

> The proficient developers, the experts, rely on their intuition built with sweat and tears, working long hours trying to debug and fix production issues

Long hours of grinding with the problem, the solution, the code and the machine all makes for an intuitive understanding of what a good architecture is in the first place.

LLMs are a tool. A useful tool unlike any we have seen so far. But still a tool. Treating it as such and leveraging it should be prioritized.