We've turned what can be an engineering discipline into code slinging. I'll say my opinion is more focused on web development ad that's been my focus for the last 8 or so years, but I don't think that's unique to web either.
I don't use LLMs to help with coding, for many reasons that likely aren't important to go into here. I ship more code than most of my colleagues and I end up chasing down fewer bugs and production regressions along the way.
I don't have any problem with devs using LLMs if it makes them more productive, though that depends entirely on how one defines productive. As you said today it generally means shipping more code and has almost nothing to do with quality, which I'm just not willing to waste my time chasing. I'll ship quality code that I understand, and its either valued by my employer or it isn't.
Because the automation is invisible, all that the naive observer sees is the stuff breaking down and being fixed by hand, which looks like utter chaos. And they're always drawn to wonder if the system would work better if the people were replaced by automation. No, because new people will need to be hired to keep the new system working.
It's the kind of thing git worktrees was made for.
I'm keen to this because I maintain our CI systems and have become acutely aware of the overhead of hallucinations breaking our CI tooling in pathological ways that draw me in to diagnose. A year ago I would have to log into our CI Kubernetes cluster to diagnose a busted build that doesn't self-report failure maybe... once a month. These days it's a couple times a week. LLM based dev is both amazing in the legit force multiplier it adds to writing code as well as the way it introduces some of the most incoherent and silly ways it breaks existing conventions.
I guess the headline is correct in that we are not hired to write code anymore, instead we are hired to shepherd code now, and a lot of it. And a lot of this code we shepherd is good enough but some amount of it is bad enough to break existing processes, but that is secondary to the volume and velocity we perceive from LLM code gen.