I Am Not a Reverse Centaur

· Miguel Grinberg · June 12, 2026, 9:36 a.m.
Summary
The author reflects on the growing prevalence of code contributions made with LLMs and how this has affected his role as a software engineer and open-source developer. He expresses concern over becoming a 'reverse centaur'—a term used to describe human reviewers being controlled by machine-generated work—while sharing his commitment to resist this trend.
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