How much code was "written by" autocomplete before LLMs came along? From my experience, LLM integration is advanced autocomplete. 25% is believable, but misleading.

My linux terminal tab-complete has written 50% of my code

Funny, but also alarming how little support it has to report something as true.

The pool of programmers has grown. There are more good programmers than ever, but the barrier to entry is also lower. It isn't necessary to pass through that kind of trial by fire anymore.

Yeah, the barrier is lower, many people can write Electron apps now.

Seconding this recommendation. As long as you have a basic understanding of electric components he's really easy to follow and does a great job of explaining how the circuits work.

Highly entertaining stories https://moxie.org/stories.html (Moxie Marlinspike)

You don't need 10s of thousands of dollars worth of tools to build something.

Especially if those things were specifically chosen because they don't require 10s of thousands of dollars worth of tools.