For myself, I’m very much a “results” guy

For myself, I’m very much a “results” guy. Have been, for all my career. I’ve been shipping (as opposed to “writing”) software for most of my adult life. People seem to like to stuff I make. I’m currently working on my first major project that incorporates heavy LLM contributions. It’s coming along great. I started with Machine Code and individual gate ICs, so my knowledge goes way down past the roots. I don’t miss it, at all. Occasionally, my understanding of stuff has been helped by that depth of experience, but, for the most part, it’s been irrelevant. It’s a first-stage booster, dropping back into the atmosphere. I will say that my original training as a bench tech has been very useful, as I’m good at finding and fixing bugs, but a lot of my experience is in the rear-view mirror. I have been routinely googling even the most basic stuff, for many years. It hasn’t corroded my intellect (yet), and I’m doing the same kind of thing with an LLM. Not being sneered at by some insecure kid is nice.