Having crossed paths with developers who have to exert an extreme amount of control over their codebases (such that they rewrite any code they inherit) and having that urgency myself sometimes, I get the premise of LLMs not measuring up, but you can totally care about quality and use LLMs… after all nothing is ever good enough when you need total control.

Even if LLMs aren’t currently up to snuff, I don’t see any deceleration yet in the s-curve. Speed, intelligence, and persistence are all improving every month. I agree that end-to-end prompting “e.g. build me app X” is not production worthy, but i think it’s pretty bold to say coding isn’t solved. AI can code almost anything you adequately specify. The specification is the engineering (it’s a process, not one prompt).