>if you control the ideas of your software, looking at the code itself is suboptimal and often pointless.

This requires developers to have absolute and unconditional Trust in the LLM. It's not easy to trust it completely to the point of completely ignoring the implementation details of the code.

In one of Salvatore's discussions, he mentioned that he hasn't even opened a single file of DS4. This is a courageous choice.

But the real question is: if the younger generation stops writing code, how are they supposed to develop that "forma mentis" (mindset) that allows them to reason about design and architecture? It's only by *writing* the code that you gradually internalize development and design patterns, specifically by clashing with the "brutality" of bugs and solving implementation problems.

P.S. I read Wohpe. It's fascinating how back in 2022 (I think?) Salvatore already wrote down many insights that have actually come true (including, for instance, the ban on "strong artificial intelligence"...). So I suppose that the future will touch the very development of humanity (like the Genesi project :) )

We're all project-managers now. The trust required of the LLM is no different than that that required when a PM trusts a dev-team to implement correctly. As a PM, you need to understand testability and write that into the requirements.

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