Prior to the rise of LLM coding, developers had to, from time to time, spent time deep diving through large amounts of code they didn't write. Hundreds of thous

Prior to the rise of LLM coding, developers had to, from time to time, spent time deep diving through large amounts of code they didn't write. Hundreds of thousands of lines or even millions. This might happens when starting a new job, or changing projects, or when tasked with evaluating some third party tech or integrating it, or taking over something that was previously owned by another developer. During such phases of work, it's not unusual to put in some long hours in order to get up to speed. With LLMs, it is possible to perpetually experience hundreds of thousands of lines of third party code, on about a weekly basis. But this is not the same. The code is not known by anyone, anywhere else. It exists nowhere else, and so has no track record of deployment. No documentation, nothing. It's not something where you can concentrate on making a small modification, while trusting the rest of it to be working.