Ctrl+Alt+Delete My Career? A Veteran Developer's Take on How LLMs Are Changing Software Engineering

The piece that started the journey. Written in 2023 alongside the first experiments in AI-assisted coding, this is a veteran developer's early reflection on how large language models might change software engineering — curious, cautiously optimistic, and still anchored in the fundamentals of the craft. Read with the later AI-first series, it maps how far the ground has shifted in three years: from "will LLMs change how we code?" to running deliberately AI-native delivery.