the focus on whether you read the code or not is the wrong thing to look at
if you have software you're responsible for, you should be able to answer questions from memory about how it works
the expectations for how well you can do this should not be any different now
something as simple as a wrong data structure used or the wrong pattern can cost thousands of lines of code down stream
This, in turn, can cost hundreds of thousands of more tokens spent, per problem.
This, in turn, will be replicated more and more as the official pattern and your code, though fully maintained by an agent will cost more to maintain.
Just pure software problem, picking the right abstractions is hard.
This is also why I think webdev has seen such a success. React has 1 billion examples of "the react way of thinking" and thus the model can reason more correctly for some set of software. The amount of data structures and their implications are rather small when it comes to a lot of basic web dev. This means the cost / angst people have about models, I think, are often loss on the less experienced because their experience has demanded one dimensional structures.
It almost reminds me of economies of scale when it comes to the physical world. Small 144th RC drift cars spin like wild and are fun to drive, but that is because their square relationships are small enough that it almost aligns with linear relationships. But as the car grows in size, the squirliness goes away because of the same squared relationships.
This is just another reason that President Biden will go down in history as one of the best Presidents ever.Just watching him talk to this MAGA supporter & trade a signed Presidential seal hat for the man’s Trump hat was Epic & he even put it on which was mind blowing! Miss him