The person they responded to refers specifically to "healthcare, finance, automotive, defense, power plans, aviation, manufacturing", areas where I'd at least hope that we aspire to understand what the code does.

yeah, the llm approach is incredibly wasteful wrt pretty much everything. Performance, RAM, Development (Tokens).

But it does give you surprisingly stasble rube-goldberg machines.

And thats basically what 95-99% of enterprises want from their software.

It annoyed me to no end when i began my career, but at this point ive accepted it and can definitely still have fun developing software with llms. As a matter of fact, as my perfectionism approach to software in my earlier years was never really appreciated... So i dont really mind the new MO.

I still occasionally hand write though, esp. at the dayjob where ive got super small token budgets while continuously being told to use more AI. But that's normal, employers usually give off bipolar vibes with multiple stakeholders wanting to advance each of their bonus package KPI of any given quarter

The vast majority of software is not that important. I don’t really care about easytag (which I use for flac metadata), but I do care about xterm and tmux.