Steve Yegge, Sourcegraph, ETLS Vegas (09)
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Claims that within 18–24 months all code is written by LLMs, backed by research co-authored with Jean, arguing industry pilots already use LLMs to do low-level creative coding while humans supervise. Declares token counting and completion acceptance rates obsolete, promotes chat-oriented programming as the workflow, and predicts senior engineers shift to design, review and orchestration roles. Positions this as observed across multiple industries rather than hypotheticals.
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