Comment by kiitos

> For me LLM:s are just a computer interface you can program using natural language. ... boring tasks cause extreme discomfort ... Now - I can offload the most boring task to LLM and spend my mental energy on the interesting stuff!

The problem with this perspective, is that when you try to offload exactly the same boring task(s), to exactly the same LLM, the results you get back are never even close to being the same. This work you're offloading via natural language prompting is not programming in any meaningful sense.

Many people don't care about this non-determinism. Some, because they don't have enough knowledge to identify, much less evaluate, the consequent problems. Others, because they're happy to deal with those problems, under the belief that they are a cost that's worth the net benefit provided by the LLM.

And there are also many people who do care about this non-determinism, and aren't willing to accept the consequent problems.

Bluntly, I don't think that anyone in group (1) can call themselves a software engineer.