"""People are, in heavy LLM systems, realising that the most valuable commodity is engineers knowing WTF is going on, and that loss of understanding of your cod

"""People are, in heavy LLM systems, realising that the most valuable commodity is engineers knowing WTF is going on, and that loss of understanding of your codebase is the #1 blocker to actually getting things done.""" Very much this. It is also true for non-LLM code bases. I still remember my first job at a company with a bigger codebase than my typical "university project code base". It was a full fledged ERP system and just learning the lay of the land and understanding what lives where and why took quite a bit of time. Interestingly, I think LLMs can be used for this "self-onboarding" and codebase-browsing/understanding. I've experimented a bit with treating an LLM as a guide of a bigger codebase it has "ingested" and having dialogues about it. Works reasonably well, I'm curious if there are companies out there that use this approach.