with LLMs? syntax doesn't really matter anymore exactly because of what you mentioned in your last sentence.
If you don't care, don't go around in programming threads telling you how it doesn't matter anymore. It doesn't matter to you, because you prefer to be ignorant about the details of programming, and you have found tools that let you live in ignorance, good for you. But some of us do care, and are going to continue to do so.
LLMs compile english to whatever code you want and it can write it better, faster and more efficiently than a human can over the long run. You might have an edge in shorter sprints but that gap is quickly reduced when LLMs simply learn and apply whatever optimization they find and it can continue to output without any diminishing returns and at fraction of what it takes to pay a human to do it.
To ship what I do now would've cost a few million dollars per year in terms of the team needed to maintain it now its 1000x cheaper
My argument was that syntax still matters because LLMs communicate in syntax, and they pay for that per token, therefore LLMs make syntax more relevent as you can actually calculate cost to write in one language versus another.
I'm not arguing that humans can compete with a network of agents.