@simon agreed, and to do that accurately, repeatably, and in a way that is automatable (e.g. unit tests) still requires knowledge of the language.

That kind of testing and review focuses on known-knowns (“this does what I expected it to do”) but largely ignores known-unknowns (“this does things I didn’t expect it to”) and unknown-unknown (“this does things I didn’t expect and I can’t see”). Those require language and tooling knowledge AFAICT.

@simon @garyfleming @fatrat I completely agree - and those are skills which only come with time and experience.

That is why I remain convinced that there is going to be good money to be made in 3-4 years time if LLM-assisted coding becomes widespread - in sorting out the horrible messes that companies have got themselves into by using junior / mid-level devs who have only ever known LLM-assistent development.