I challenge anyone in this forum to create a sizeable production-ready application and maintain it using a language/database/platform they have no idea about by simply asking LLMs to build it. I'm pretty sure anyone will spend enough time banging their heads against a wall trying to fix bugs they have zero understanding about or properly learning the technologies (which they should have done in the first place).

LLMs are great when you're fairly knowledgeable about the topic. You can ask it to automate stuff and you can spot the errors and fix them. Hopefully it automates enough and makes fewer errors than the time it'd take for you to code from scratch.

They currently can make programmers more productive if used right. Now allow a junior to enter the field and never learning some skill because the LLM does it all? Not even close.

The same can be said about google and more specifically about stackoverflow: you can't just mindlessly copy-paste.

It is a tool that can be useful both for a beginner and more experienced developers.

I struggle to believe that. I've found Copilot / ChatGPT really useful, especially for doing support investigation tasks (chopping and filtering logs mainly). Not once has it just output a perfect answer - it's required me to know what it's trying to do in order to tweak it to my needs. Not having the skills in the first place would leave me with a confused half solution.