James Bennett: “Let’s talk about LLMs”

I really enjoyed this. It begins with a sweeping look at LLMs through the lens of process analysis in software design, and moves on to discuss what “productivity” actually means. And it’s not output: So the consistent theme here, in the studies and reports and in more recent public examples, is that being able to generate code much more quickly than before, even in 2026 with modern LLMs and modern…