If programmers spend 90%+ of their time reading code rather than writing it, then LLM-generated code is optimizing only a small amount of the total work of programming. That seems to be similar to the point this blog is making.
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/835238-indeed-the-ratio-of-...
Context is never close at hand, it is scattered all over the place defeating the purpose.
Now I have produced a lot of programs, just by reading them.
People should also learn how to read programs. Most open source code is atrocious, corporate code is usually even worse, but not always.
As Donald Knuth once said, code is meant to be read. The time of literate programming is gonna come at some point, either in 100 years or in 3 years.
People used to resist reading machine generated output. Look at the code generator / source code / compiler, not at the machine code / tables / xml it produces.
That resistance hasn't gone anywhere. Noone wants to read 20k lines of generated C++ nonsense that gcc begrudgingly accepted, so they won't read it. Excitingly the code generator is no longer deterministic, and the 'source code prompt' isn't written down, so really what we've got is rapidly increasing piles of ascii-encoded-binaries accumulating in source control. Until we give up on git anyway.
It's a decently exciting time to be in software.