Your (1) is not matching with (2) because there are anecdotes contrary to yours (the tweet in question and my personal one). I have close to 2 decades of experience in a variety of languages and frameworks and never felt this powerful and liberated with any of the previous tools.In the past year I have developed 2 complex products nearing market launch with just me on a part time basis.

My professional colleagues continue to feel the exact same way you feel and despite my best efforts refuse to even bother using them for anything. Using LLMs might appear to be simple and the prompt length might be similar between an experienced user vs naive one but the way intent is conveyed varies with skill level.

My only complaints about LLMs are: 1) Context is still a limiting factor (so only medium sized projects) 2) I have to still copy paste the code (no IDE truly helps here)

What has improved in the past 6 months: Sonnet happened and I no longer have to worry about the code being wrong or that it contains obvious mistakes. In many cases where I thought it got it wrong turned out to be a clever way to minimize the number of changes needed/clever ways to do more with less. We are approaching the point where humans no longer are intelligent enough to appreciate the LLMs.