> People are, in heavy LLM systems, realising that the most valuable commodity is engineers knowing WTF is going on, and that loss of understanding of your codebase is the #1 blocker to actually getting things done. Any senior engineer knows this all too well

I've been pushing against this "maximum LLM driven speed" in our infrastructure as well and been working on a middle ground:

We can generate a change to Ansible or terraform code in half or a third of the time, sure. But we don't use this to make three times the changes in the same time frame. We rather use the freed up time to discuss the change, the context and the affected systems with 2-3 engineers maintaining them. And yes, at times this means us three are sitting around half a day discussing and drawing diagrams about our systems.

I'm just happy to work in a company understanding the value of speeding up less than we could in the feature direction, but investing this time in the direction of control and understanding of the infrastructure.