After 2+ years of using LLM agents to write code for me , I had to reclaim my engineering skills. It was so easy to create 50+ project with a sleek ui, but i c

After 2+ years of using LLM agents to write code for me , I had to reclaim my engineering skills. It was so easy to create 50+ project with a sleek ui, but i could not explain any of them. It was easier to start a new project from scratch than was to dive in the code to understand what is going on. The worst part is whenever my tokens ran out , my productivity was zero. I was even an engineer anymore just a glorified prompter. Lately i have changed how i work, i still use it but like a fancy autocomplete, a debugger, I make it draft stuff for me , then i interrogate it, i make it justify every line of code that it writes, until i understand the code myself that i can write it if i wanted to. Guys listen to me oneshot an entire feature may seem like you're 10x productivity but once the code it generate becomes complex even the agent can't deal with the complexity it itself created. Big LLM companies market the product as coding is over, just become a prompter and buy our subsbscription fees. We used to get paid to write code, now we pay to write code.