[spicyusername]

I think people will come around to accepting llm written code eventually, but it's hard having your entire career, and identity, upended overnight.

Many people, myself included, have come to define themselves by their coding skills. They've taken great pride in not just solving the problem, but solving it in an elegant or nice looking way. Crisp comments, nice spacing, clever abstractions.

In an age where an llm is better at scanning the code than you are, these things just do not matter anymore. Llms will be doing the debugging. Llms will be doing the writing. Llms will be doing the optimizing. And so all that matters is that llms can make sense of things. And they are much much better at making sense of things without the need for so many of the things that humans rely on as waypoints.

The skill is no longer writing the code. It's solving the problems. Maybe it always was.