Comment by vrighter

What accumulation of knowledge? LLMs are marketed as "democratizing" (I hate this term) software development specifically by claiming to remove the need for knowledge.

Software development hasn't been democratized. The term doesn't even make sense. Anyone could learn whatever using the same resources as anyone else. I would (and have, in the past) gladly teach anyone who asks me to. And most of my friends would too. The fact that non-devs couldn't write code was not because devs were gatekeeping, but because they didn't want to learn. And they still don't.