Most of the dev work out there in the broader corporate world (not startups) doesn't care about "shipping fast". Writing code is not the bottleneck.
When your day consists of lots of meetings with humans who have technically vague requirements, nobody ever meets you halfway. Your primary job becomes bridging those knowledge gaps mostly by yourself. You have to buckle down and make independent decisions that neither the stakeholders, nor the LLMs, can help you with. You get paid because the organization trusts you with lots of information that only lives inside people's heads.
In that situation, the LLMs are only really useful for familiarizing yourself with the existing code. They are completely irrelevant to writing code. You'll have entire two-week sprints to make very precise changes to only about a dozen lines of code, but the coding is not even 10% of what you're paid to do with that time.
In my opinion, this is what senior software engineering always was. Everyone raving about LLMs are basically code monkeys working in sweatshops.
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Most of the dev work out there in the broader corporate world (not startups) doesn't care about "shipping fast". Writing code is not the bottleneck.
When your day consists of lots of meetings with humans who have technically vague requirements, nobody ever meets you halfway. Your primary job becomes bridging those knowledge gaps mostly by yourself. You have to buckle down and make independent decisions that neither the stakeholders, nor the LLMs, can help you with. You get paid because the organization trusts you with lots of information that only lives inside people's heads.
In that situation, the LLMs are only really useful for familiarizing yourself with the existing code. They are completely irrelevant to writing code. You'll have entire two-week sprints to make very precise changes to only about a dozen lines of code, but the coding is not even 10% of what you're paid to do with that time.
In my opinion, this is what senior software engineering always was. Everyone raving about LLMs are basically code monkeys working in sweatshops.