On: Why I will not be using LLMs in my coding

> If you let it write the code, it does become a management job more than an engineering job.

I disagree. It remains an engineering job. Us software engineers got confused about what the engineering part always was. The engineering part of chemical engineering isn’t cutting piping, welding shit, or rolling metal. The engineering in civil engineering isn’t pouring the concrete, or grading the site.

Yet somehow it’s a prevailing idea that the engineering part of software engineering was typing on keys and naming variables.

Writing high-level code was never as mechanical as “cutting piping.” That’s absurd. If that’s how you thought about writing code, you were simply a bad programmer.