But the aha moment for me was what’s maintainable by AI vs by me by hand are on different realms. So maintainable has to evolve from good human design patterns to good AI patterns.
Specs are worth it IMO. Not because if I can spec, I could’ve coded anyway. But because I gain all the insight and capabilities of AI, while minimizing the gotchas and edge failures.
How do you square that with the idea that all the code still has to be reviewed by humans? Yourself, and your coworkers
So maybe it's that we won't be reviewing by hand anymore? I.e. it's LLMs all the way down. Trying to embrace that style of development lately as unnatural as it feels. We're obv not 100% there yet but Claude Opus is a significant step in that direction and they keep getting better and better.
And you don’t blame humans anyways lol. Everywhere I’ve worked has had “blameless” postmortems. You don’t remove human review unless you have reasonable alternatives like high test coverage and other automated reviews.
“It’s AI all the way down” is either nonsense on its face, or the industry is dead already.
I don't find that LLMs are any more likely than humans to remember to update all of the places it wrote redundant functions. Generally far less likely, actually. So forgive me for treating this claim with a massive grain of salt.