Try not to get hired by any large company, otherwise you might find you need to change your mind.

I beg your pardon, sir

That 10% is ideally “creating value” for the customer. Boilerplate code is not value, therefore outsource it to LLMs.

I try again and again to switch, since 30 years ago I first tried Linux with Slackware. But as a .NET developer, Microsoft makes sure the toolchain for anything other than Windows is subpar and I keep coming back to Visual Studio. Yes I have tried Rider and Visual Studio Code.

Have children. You will have no spare time to code for several years after that 😆 Mine are 4 and 5 years old now and I never have time or energy to code outside work.

But I think that’s a good thing. I leave coding at work, mostly use my computer for gaming.

One of the strengths of the too-many-approvals approach was that it made sure developers were still looking closely at every little change.

More likely it made developers immune to the approval button, instead just clicking approve blindly.

I would say: Learn to use LLMs as a tool rather than a crutch.

I’ve never seen it recommend a solution using regex. And I’ve had it provide a lot of useful code. Perhaps you need to look into prompt engineering training?

Try reading the question again, this time answer without hating all things LLM. OP asked if AI could be used for initial peer review, to which the answer is a big yes.

How a lot of software development ends up in real life too.

Which is a rounding error in any commercial business.

Phoenix Project and Unicorn Project are about non technical skills. Very entertaining books as well.

Except book #2 I fully agree, these are great books to read for someone who wants to grow their non technical skills.

Having worked in this industry for going on 25 years, I long ago learned that there are way too many incompetent programmers in the world working critical jobs. It’s best not to think about it.

Extremely click bait title by the article author.

On all the agile projects I’ve worked on, the teams have been very reluctant to make a specification in place before starting development. Often claiming that we can’t know the requirements up-front, because we’re agile.

Article is from 2016

Since the “new” version it has been shit. Typical big enterprises to break something the users like.

Missing perhaps the most important skill: Human to human communication, allowing you to:

• Discover the real requirements for your task by talking to the end user/stakeholder.
• Be able to propose and discuss alternatives to the requested solution, after you learn the real requirements.
• Clearly and timely communicate obstacles that occur during any phase in the project.

I suspect it is missing because most developers, myself included, dislike human communication. We like computers because they give us honest and logical answers.

If you have been gaining experience in the IT industry as a developer and have good hands-on experience on various issues that appear in any kind of application then you should consider moving higher in the corporate hierarchy.

Or, you know, keep doing what your enjoy and stay a developer.