Comment by TheAlchemist

His arguments are mostly right I would say. I tend to use a bit of LLMs for coding - just Copilot though - and I do like how it quite often saves me time with autocomplete spanning entire lines.

ChatGPT is also pretty usefull - especially for naming things.

However, on a global scale, I would compare the shift towards 'vibe coding' and massive LLMs use to the one we got when people doing the coding don't even know what Assembly even is. Current state of software is that it's incredibly bloated and slow (and I do love python). Doesn't matter that much since we've got massive improvements in hardware, but still. In 5 years, instead of not really realizing that we're writing slow and bloated code, we will not really realize we're writing incorrect code.

I don't know anything about web developement, but in the environements I've seen during my career - where most code is quite critical and a stupid mistake, one that an LLM could easily hallucinate, can cost a lot - I don't see it replacing humans anytime soon. It's a pretty good and usefull tool though.