I get writing boilerplate and unit tests can probably be done by software well enough, at least when supervised.

Ill be honest, that's not even my real issue.

My real issue is that programming, devops, systems administration. All of these things are art forms, every bit of them. From high-level application architecture down to the tiniest details of implementation.

Like how much of a library you choose to include, what you name your variables, what type of loops you use to iterate through data. How you choose to format and comment your code.

Giving these choices to the machine is like the painter giving their brush to it.

Just like images generated by stable diffusion will never be worth their fully-human painted equivalent. So too will LLM-developed programs fail to hold that value.

For what its worth, this isnt new. I've held contempt for VC-worshipping developers who see programming as a means to an end far longer than LLMs have been used for serious work.

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