2026 Oct 10
- Yes, and... - "Senior programmers who already have a lot of experience from the pre-AI era are in a good spot to use LLMs effectively: they know what 'good' code looks like, they have experience with building larger systems and know what matters and what doesn’t. The danger with senior programmers is that they stop programming entirely and start suffering from brain rot.
Particularly dangerous is firing off prompts and then getting sucked into The Eternal Scroll while waiting.
Ask me how I know."