Yeah, while I have some doubts, I believe that LLMs have fundamental issues that will always hold them back. The doubts come because Claude Code seems like they've built a system where they are effective at giving it a good context, and it has relatively quickly solved some annoying obscure issues with my environment that I was unable to make any progress on my own with and other LLMs were also useless for.

I still think it's a series of patches/bandaids to cover up those flaws, but my doubt comes in the form of "what if those patches can get it to average human level or even skilled". I don't think LLMs can get to the true innovator level like Einstein and Tesla, but doing competent work is well below that level and at this point I think LLMs might be able to get there.

And I think other approaches could do even better. Not that I know what they are, but just based on the assumption that we haven't found the ideal approach in the still infancy of what AI could be.

Edit: Funny enough but the current/recent advancements seem to be aimed at eliminating the job of "prompt expert" first.