Don't you mean extinct?

Fabien Sanglard · 10 Jul 2026

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Their wordsWe can accomplish more with smaller teams. We may not be far from the '90s model, when a team of four could produce professional software.

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Programmers who refuse to use LLMs to code will fall behind those who do.

Their wordsWriting every line by hand is no longer the norm. Those who refuse to use an LLM will fall behind because they won't be able to produce as much
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Code quality still matters even as LLMs make writing code much faster.

Their wordsBut for everything else, code quality still matters tremendously.
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Smaller teams are better

Their wordsWe can accomplish more with smaller teams. We may not be far from the '90s model, when a team of four could produce professional software.

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