Comment by daishi55

> Don't think the 0.2% really are in agreement that "large, complex projects that used to take them weeks/months can now be completed by agents with a prompt".

If you are at the top of field with unlimited access to the best (public) models then yes, you will agree that this is the case.

> The divide seems to be between people who think you may need to understand the codebase for maintenance, potential future token costs, optimisation, code erosion & being wary of the assumptions/mistakes that they have seen LLMs make, and people who don't review code and are confident that the AI has made no mistakes and will be available for next-to-nothing forever.

This is not the real divide, it’s the divide you want to exist. The real divide is something along the lines of intellectual curiosity, capability, and confidence.

> if/when they break things

Idk man. I’m one of those guys who “doesn’t write code anymore” since early this year. Nothing is breaking. If anything the chance of things breaking is shrinking dramatically, with both the enormous growth in tooling to support agentic software development (where I work, this mainly really good AI code reviews that catch so much more than human reviewers ever could), and the improvements in the models themselves.

Sorry, but the fantasy of all this coming crashing down is just never going to happen. This is just how it is now, and all the structures will continue to adapt to support it even better.