Why (claimed)? It’s pretty easy to verify this person is a professor at SAIS. And the Atlantic is a big enough publication that if someone was impersonating him, it would have been found out since publication.

I had an overweight BMI when I could run a sub 3-hour marathon, I’ve concluded my body just doesn’t match the normal range.

I’m not sure that LLM makes it easier to do. Pain points I’ve seen:

1. You have to remember all the technologies you need included, my company template already has them.

2. LLM doesn’t have a standardized directory structure, so you end up with different projects having different structures and file naming conventions. This makes later refactoring or upgrades across multiple projects less automatable (sometimes this can be solved by having an LLM do those, but they often are unsuccessful in some projects still)

3. LLMs have a knowledge cutoff. If your company has already moved to a version after that knowledge cutoff, you need to upgrade the LLM generated code.

I very much prefer having a company template to asking an LLM to generate the initial project.

Is this the case even with rerere in git?

The distributed computing manifesto for Amazon is from 1998. Jeff was not thinking about those things then. And wouldn’t for 5 more years.