To a first approximation, no one gets paid to write bespoke hand crafted software. We get paid to make the company more money or save the company more money than the fully allocated cost to employ us to make computers do things. I take “pride” in the fact that software and implementations I designed meets the requirements of the people that paid me to write it - whether that be by a combination of my work and my delegated work to humans or LLMs

Over the past decade, part of my job has been to design systems, talk to “stakeholders” and delegate some work and do some myself. I’m neither a web developer nor a mobile developer.

I don’t look at a line of code for those types of implementations. I do make sure they work. From my perspective, those that I delegated to might as well be “human LLMs”.