It's funny watching people rediscover well-established paradigms. Suddenly everyone's recreating software design documents [0].

People can say what they want about LLMs reducing intelligence/ability; The trend has clearly been that people are beginning to get more organized, document things better, enforce constraints, and think in higher-level patterns. And there's renewed interest in formal verification.

LLMs will force the skilled, employable engineer to chase both maintainability and productivity from the start, in order to maintain a competitive edge with these tools. At least until robots replace us completely.

[0] https://www.atlassian.com/work-management/knowledge-sharing/...