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"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
It's hard to keep things simple. Management should be mindful of that and encourage engineers to follow YAGNI, to do refactorings that remove more code than they add, etc.
It's like telling your children: "do as I say, not as I do".
My feelings as well.
Did you even read the second half of the post? The author's answer to your concerns is testing. He suggests relying on tests rather than on strict type system that forces you to design everything upfront.
Personally, I can see arguments for both approaches - stricter types or more tests.
Even if it is AI assisted, the points are still valid and written in a way that is easy to understand.
that LLM are fundamentally unable to produce original code.
What about humans? Are humans capable of producing completely original code or ideas or thoughts?
As the saying goes, if you want to create something from scratch, you have to start by inventing the universe.
Human mind works by noticing patterns and applying them in different contexts.