Great article. Hits on many points that resonate with my experience.

The skin in the game one, in particular, is something I've been thinking about. People have been telling me LLMs are "more intelligent" than "average people". But it's easy to sound intelligent when you have no skin in the game. People have to stand by their word and suffer the consequences of their actions. It's not enough just to sound intelligent.

It seems appropriate also to share an anecdote of an incident that recently happened in my job. A colleague submitted some code for review, quite a lot of it. A second colleague reviewed and questioned a piece of code. Rather than answer the question with a justification, the question was taken rhetorically and the code was removed. The code then failed in production because the removed code was, in fact, necessary. The LLM obviously "knew" this, but neither colleague did. It's leading me to introduce a "no rhetorical questions in code review" rule. The submitter must be able to justify every line of code they submit.