I don't think that this is a fair comparison because at some point the nature of the craft actually does change.
To give an analogy, a carpenter might be happy with hand tools, happy with machine tools, happy with plywood, and happy with MDF. For routine jobs they may be happy to buy pre-fabbed cabinets.
But for them to employ an apprentice (AI in this example) and outsource work to them - suddenly they are no longer really acting as a carpenter, but a kind of project manager.
edit: I agree that LLMs in their current state don't really fundamentally change the game - the point I am trying to make is that it's completely understandable that everyone has their own "stop" point. Otherwise, we'd all live in IKEA mansions.
Running state of the art LLMs for programming is nowhere near project management. At least in my experience, all LLMs are really good at is dumping plausible tokens quickly. They can't think, design, or handle tradeoffs intelligently.
They help me with the keyboard work, not any of the actual programming.
An apprentice is another person performing the same kind of work as the carpenter. That's fundamentally different from using an LLM, which is not a person and does not function like a person.
Whether you think LLMs are spectacularly worthwhile or odious and destructive, it's crucial not to classify them as being a person instead of a software tool.
To give an analogy, a carpenter might be happy with hand tools, happy with machine tools, happy with plywood, and happy with MDF. For routine jobs they may be happy to buy pre-fabbed cabinets.
But for them to employ an apprentice (AI in this example) and outsource work to them - suddenly they are no longer really acting as a carpenter, but a kind of project manager.
edit: I agree that LLMs in their current state don't really fundamentally change the game - the point I am trying to make is that it's completely understandable that everyone has their own "stop" point. Otherwise, we'd all live in IKEA mansions.