> This is a huge blind-spot I keep seeing people miss. LLM "programmers" are way way more useful to regular people than they are to career programmers.

Kinda. They're good, and I like them, but I think of them like a power tool: just because you can buy an angle grinder or a plasma cutter from a discount supermarket, doesn't mean the tool is safe in the hands of an untrained amateur.

Someone using it to help fix up a spreadsheet? Probably fine. But you should at least be able to read the code to the level you don't get this deliberate bad example to illustrate the point:

  #!/usr/bin/python3
  total_sales = 0.0
  def add_sale(total_sales, amount):
    total_sales = total_sales + amount
    print("total_sales: " + str(total_sales))

Still useful, still sufficiently advanced technology that for most people it is (Clarketech) magic, but also still has some rough edges.