The 1993 Jurassic Park production offers a direct parallel to today's LLM disruption. Phil Tippett, hired for go-motion dinosaurs, told Steven Spielberg "I feel extinct" after Industrial Light & Magic demonstrated a photorealistic CGI T. rex. The author argues programmers face identical anxiety and must evolve rather than resist.

Learning resources include Andrej Karpathy's 25-hour video series and Sebastian Raschka's Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) with full-color diagrams. John Carmack emphasizes problem-solving over coding syntax: "Coding was never the source of value." The author maintains GEMINI.md and CLAUDE.md style guides with rules like "Don't use magic numbers," "Reduce code indentation," and "Use enums instead of boolean parameters."

Code review standards have risen. The author enforces seven commit-message rules — 50-character subject lines, imperative mood, 72-character body wrapping — and expects smaller PRs since LLMs make splitting changes trivial. Integrated LLM reviewers perform first passes using the author's style guides. Writing tests is no longer painful, so unit tests are mandatory for each PR, especially during large refactors.

The author now asks LLMs to write utilities like Levenshtein distance functions instead of adding dependencies. Context switching between multiple agent-driven projects causes measurable mental fatigue, a burnout risk worth monitoring. The core discipline remains reading and understanding generated code, as LLMs still hallucinate architecture decisions.