At the end of the day, I'm being paid to ensure that the code deployed to production meets a particular bar of quality. Regardless of whether I'm reviewing code or writing it, If I let a commit be merged, I have to be convinced that it is a net positive to the codebase.

People having easy access to LLMs makes this job much harder. LLMs can create what looks at the surface like expert-written code, but suffers from below-the-surface issues that will reveal themselves as intermittent issues or subtle bugs after being deployed.

Inexperienced devs create huge commits full of such code, and then expect me to waste an entire day searching for such issues, which is miserable.

If the models don't improve significantly in the future, I expect that most high-stakes software teams will fire all the inexperienced devs and have super-experienced engineers work with the bots directly.