As a "real engineer" you'd likely use LLMs differently. I save my conversations, have chats and codebase exegesis summarized into .txt files, and constantly refactor LLM output. I have an increasingly reliable sense of when to dip in and write things myself and when to let the LLM rip. My LLM-assisted code is better than my hand-written code; how could it not be? I'd have to be committing raw LLM output without even reading it to end up somewhere worse. If I did that, how much of a "real engineer" would I be?
All this is to say: even if all progress on AI halted today, it would remain the case that, after the Internet, LLMs are the most impactful thing to happen to software development in my career. It would be weird if companies like Supabase weren't thinking about them in their product plans.
