All these things can be true simultaneously:

* AI has wholly taken over the corporate world

* Programmers can now generate massive amounts of code

* This massive productivity boost is, oddly enough, not reflected in consumer products at all

* LLM use hampers software development at its current level of complexity (because AI is incapable of independent abstraction and simplification)

* Programmers are deskilling en masse and turning into managers (without admitting it to themselves)

* The externalities of LLM use remain the same (and, to an extent, can’t actually be fixed)

* There will always be programmers who code by hand, even in a professional capacity — and it’s quite likely they’ll be the ones dragging the industry forward (up the ladder of abstraction)