Comment by zahlman

> what happened to ideas are cheap - execution is everything.

It used to be that we only recognized a tiny fraction of the actual ideas involved, because most of them were intermingled with execution. We would sit there and bang out code at single-digit WPM while trying to keep block diagrams of process memory (or UML diagrams, or whatever else) in our heads, and then run the compiler and/or the tests and realize we'd gone wrong anyway.

Now we have lightning-fast "execution" devoid of real insight (just making choices more or less arbitrarily as they come up) because the LLM can do more and more without human intervention, but for some tasks it goes off the rails because the insight actually is necessary.