[antonvs]

> The tradeoff of higher velocity for less enjoyment

I'm enjoying exactly what the author describes, so it's different strokes for different folks.

I always found the "code monkey" aspect of software development utterly boring and tedious, and have spent a lot of my career automating that away with various kinds of code generators, DSLs, and so on. \

Using an LLM as a general-purpose automated code monkey is a near-ideal scenario for me, and I enjoy the work more. It's especially useful for languages like Go or Java where repetitive boilerplate is endemic.

I also find it helps with procrastination, because I can just ask an LLM to start something for me and get over the initial hump.

> whether we're actually trading away more quality that we realise.

This is completely up to the people using it.