The Death of the Stubborn Developer.

If you're not using chop¹, then you're plodding. You're like one of those crusty old assembly-language holdouts still using asm in 1990 because compiler-generated code wasn't fast enough. Stubborn bastards, the lot of 'em. Sound familiar?

They were both right and wrong, since compiler-generated code was indeed not as trustworthy as handwritten code (sound familiar?)… at the time. Once it caught up, their doom was sealed, and their smugness, wiped.

Same will go for you, soon enough, if you find yourself still programming by writing code by hand when the shoe drops.

¹ Chat-oriented programming

Relevant: “Catching the LLM in a hallucination, catching a junior associate in a mistake – pretty similar.”