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"If you're fearful of LLMs producing slop, or building a system that nobody understands, these are the techniques that the best software engineering teams have used for decades to mitigate that risk with humans."

"Why should I bother to read something someone else couldn't be bothered to write?"

"Review is now about half of a developer's job, but many teams still treat it as the final step in the process rather than the primary constraint on delivery"

"If everyone already agreed with you, there'd be no opportunity left."

"The measure of a developer is not the number of lines written, but rather the number of lines that needn't be written."

"Free generation doesn't weaken YAGNI. It makes the violation cheaper to commit, which is worse."

"The mistake is treating both kinds of code the same: Glue code gets over-engineered. Core domain logic stays hidden in long services or handlers. Good architecture starts with noticing the difference."

"In many cases, the systems are deliberately tuned to feel more human rather than more mechanical. I would argue that the opposite approach would be healthier in the long term."