Citation needed. In my circles, Senior engineer are not using them a lot, or in very specific use cases. My company is blocking LLMs use apart from a few pilots (which I am part of, and while claude code is cool, its effectiveness on a 10-year old distributed codebase is pretty low).
You can't make sweeping statements like this, software engineering is a large field.
And I use claude code for my personal projects, I think it's really cool. But the code quality is still not there.
that goes both ways
Go ahead, convince me. Please describe clearly and concisely in one or two sentences the clear economic value/advantage of LLMs.
People love stuff that makes them feel like they are doing less work. Cognitive biases distort reality and rational thinking, we know this already through behavioural economics.
This is making me even more skeptical of your claims. Individual metrics are often very poor at tracking reality.
That’s one example, there are dozens of processes that are now relatively easy to automate due to LLMs.