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Any idiot can write code, that was never the problem.

Building high quality software on the other hand takes a lot of empathy, skill and experience; neither of which is attainable for a computer.

I feel bad for the users of these discounted applications...

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seems like an emotional and out of date view

It is in fact an emotional view. That doesn't make it out of date, however.

When you've lived through enough piles of barely-working garbage produced by contractors who didn't understand, or coworkers who didn't care, you'll know why they were emotional. You'll also have a suspicion that they are not yet out of date.

its out of date because the code quality is the best i've seen much better than humans can

this technology is getting better not worse. ive already been able to do without a dedicated frontend react developer. i cant be alone.

If you honestly think LLMs write better code than humans I suspect your experience is limited to people who would probably be better off doing something else.

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