Does it matter though? Programming was already terrible. There are a few companies doing good things, the rest made garbage already for the past decades. No one cares (well; consumers don't care; companies just have insurance when it happens so they don't really care either; it's just a necessary line item) about their data being exposed etc as long as things are cheap cheap. People daily work with systems that are terrible in every way and then they get hacked (for ransom or not). Now we can just make things cheaper/faster and people will like it. Even at the current level software will be vastly easier and faster to make; sure it will suck, but I'm not sure anyone outside HN cares in any way shape or form (I know our clients don't; they are shipping garbage faster than ever and they see our service as a necessary business expense IF something breaks/messes up). Which means that it won't matter if LLMs get better; it matters that they get a lot cheaper so we can just run massive amounts of them on every device committing code 24/7 and that we keep up our tooling to find possible minefields faster and bandaid them until the next issue pops up.
It kind of reminds me of when Uber launched, and taxi drivers were talking about how it was the death of safe, clean, responsible, and trustworthy taxi service.
Except taxi drivers were not any safer, cleaner, more responsible, or more trustworthy than the general population, and the primary objective of most taxi companies seemed to be to actively screw with their customer base.
In short, their claims were inaccurate and motivated by protecting their existing racket.
