Completely agree. If anything LLMs have just made this completely transparent and are revealing that actual engineering in software is limited to rare cases.

All of theses middling developers who are so excited about these tools don't seem to realize that they are perfectly primed to eventually eliminate precisely the kind of worker responsible for hooking up existing APIs for solved problems into a web app, the kind of work the market hitherto greatly over esteemed and overpaid for isn't my going to be so esteemed or highly valued anymore. The only real work that will remain is actual hard engineering work (solving novel technical modeling problems, not just plugging apis together). All of these lazy devs are hyped for precisely the automation that's goin. to significantly reduce their pay and labor prospects in the long term lol. I'm shocked at times at how people can fail to see the writing on the wall when it's been written in gargantuan red ink