There are many layers to "knowing how stuff works". What does your manager do when your code breaks? > Continue to throw your LLM at it? Increasingly, yes. If

There are many layers to "knowing how stuff works". What does your manager do when your code breaks? > Continue to throw your LLM at it? Increasingly, yes. If you have objective acceptance criteria, just putting the LLM in a loop with a quality gate tends to have it converge on a fix itself, the same way a human would. Not always, and not always optimally, but more and more often, and with cheaper and cheaper models. I also tend to throw in an analysis stage where it will look at what went wrong and use that to add additional criteria for the next run.