Comment by oblio

The compiler argument is great, if we turn it on its head.

To create professional products, compilers are great, when used by professionals or passionate and technical amateurs. They're useless if you're neither.

LLMs are the next step up. They are quite useful if you are neither, and you can get a lot farther with them, which means that low quality software is much easier to create. But if, for whatever reason, you need to create higher quality software (like most software that's actually sold directly or through subscriptions or ads), you're back to the "be a professional or passionate and technical amateur".