TLDR; Software development, as it has been done for decades, is over. LLM coding tools have changed it fundamentally for the better or worse. “Talk is cheap. Show me the code.” — Linus Torvalds, August 2000 When Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, made this quip in response to a claim about a complex piece of programming in the Linux kernel, [1] I was an oblivious, gangly, fledgling teenage n00b

