I'm working on a longer piece of writing about this, but I think a lot of this comes down to the fact that my personal style of developing code is extremely compatible with LLMs.

I have hundreds of projects which are small single page HTML apps, single purpose command line, utilities or plugins for my larger projects.

All of these are short enough to fit into the context window of an LLM.

If all I worked on were 1-2 hundred thousand or million line applications I would get significantly less value out of LLMs.