Comment by stackghost

Just like my previous comments, much depends on the specifics.

My wife's sister and her husband run a small retail shop in $large_city. My sister-in-law taught herself how to set up and modify a website with a shopify storefront largely with LLM help. Now they take online orders. I've looked at the code she wrote and it's not pretty but it generally works. There will probably never be a "help me fix this unmaintainable mess and I will pay you" moment in the life of that business.

The crux of my point is this: In 2015 she would have had to hire somebody to do that work.

This segment of the software industry is where the "LLMs will take our jerbs" argument is coming from.

The people who say "AI is junk and it can't do anything right" are simply operating in a different part of the industry.