Having been working on a lot of low complexity code over the last few years I don't really sympathize with the author. I mainly use LLMs for the chores. And there are many many chores in software development. CRUD APIs, validation, yet another DB service, yet another script, minor version upgrades etc. Chores are also very straightforward to review. I do reserve the time to do normal engineering especially for the rare interesting algo and don't get this obsession with how everything must be agentic at all costs. Honestly seems like crypto propaganda all over again. If productivity "really" has gotten 10x doing some tasks without LLMs won't even put a dent in your average dev. output. What I do grieve is a lack of non-AI news. Might just stop following HN for a year or two and wait for the LLM spam to die off.