> engineers engineer around them with their own solutions
When that happens there's a major engineering leadership failure currently in progress, even if engineering leadership isn't aware of it.
When that happens there's a major engineering leadership failure currently in progress, even if engineering leadership isn't aware of it.
EDIT: LLM or not, this is still true. If you have LLMs pumping out tons of duplicate code you're wasting tokens, and probably more importantly wasting engineer hours reviewing duplicate code.
In some cases it might be a fair trade, in moderation. In general it's certainly wrong.