[websap]

I disagree with your 2nd assertion. Even engineers who are less tech lead style engineers, can gain a significant boost in productivity by being able to quickly run through POCs and build an understanding of surrounding areas of their work, so they are able to contribute more.

For eg I am able to make React changes much faster and the changes are higher quality, given frontend dev has never been my job role. I’m able to spin up test harnesses, write throw away glue code, test against large datasets, etc

[lordgrenville]

> I am able to make React changes much faster and the changes are higher quality, given frontend dev has never been my job role

Man, if I had a dollar for every time someone said "I'm not good at X, but LLMs are so impressive at it". Like do you think there might be some connection between those two points?!

[skydhash]

> I’m able to spin up test harnesses, write throw away glue code, test against large datasets, eTc

It seems that I don’t like coding when I read these kinds of statements. If I’m doing an experimentation, it would be a few lines at most. Because that’s all I needed before I can write a solution.

Writing code is the last tool to design with. Thinking and a bit of sketching is what I do mostly. Then I verify small bits with code (mostly for checking a library when the documentation is lacking or a stub when I’m focusing on another part). Otherwise, it’s just enough code to get it working well and refactoring when the requirements changes.