Agreed. I don’t care for engineering or coding, and would gladly give it up the moment I can. I’m also running a one man business where every hour counts (and where I’m responsible for maintaining every feature).

The fact of the matter is LLMs produce lower quality at higher volumes in more time than it would take to write it myself, and I’m a very mediocre engineer.

I find this seperation of “coding” vs “building” so offensive. It’s basically just saying some people are only concerned with “inputs”, while others with “outputs”. This kind of rhetoric is so toxic.

It’s like saying LLM art is separating people into people who like to scribble, and people who like to make art.

Would you accept 'people who like to make art, and people who like to commission somebody to make art and give them lots of notes in the process'?

I mean it’s closer, but I don’t think it’s right to equate commissioning an artist with paying a multi-billion dollar corporation to steal from artists.

These tools are just lazy shortcuts. And that’s fine, there’s no problem with taking the lazy way. I’m never going to put in the time to learn to draw, so it’s cool there’s an option for me.

I just take ire with pretending it’s something grand and refined, or spitting in the face of the ones who are willing to put in the work

I have! You have to be realistic about the projects. The more irreducible local context it needs, the less useful it will be. Great for greenfield code, oneshots, write once read once run for months.