Thanks. I think I have a good understanding of the business, having worked at the same place for 7 years. I am a leader in the sense of bringing technical ideas to the table, either for DX or product features. Often I use LLMs to sound out my ideas and thoughts and mould them into something I can go and talk about to higher-ups or other engineers to get buy-in. Also using LLMs a fair amount for writing tests which is great as I hate that bit!

Yeah I absolutely understand I'm in a better spot than juniors! But I worry slightly about the mid/longer term implications so want to make sure I'm prepared now rather than out of a job in some years due to AI.

I don't think I'm taking a moral stand against LLMs, but as you said, LLMs let complexity spiral and often I'm commenting on a PR for something a colleague has done which is clearly AI and not quite right. I try to care a lot about the code my team write but for sure we use LLMs.

Yeah you're right. I've always been front-end oriented, from when I was 15 making websites. But my fascination is more on the problem-solving side and coming up with new technical ideas, so I think if there were genuine problems to solve I could do that. I definitely see your point though.

Thanks for your views, very helpful.