[amichayg]

The core value of LLMs is simple: sometimes you need to write code, but what you really want is to design, experiment, or just get something usable.

Even when you do write code, you often only care about specific aspects—you just want to automate the rest.

This is hard to reconcile with modern business models. If you tell someone that a software engineer can also design, they’ll just fire the designer and pile more work on the engineer. But it doesn’t change the underlying truth: a single engineer who can touch many parts of the software with low cognitive friction is simply a better kind of engineer.