I hope my comment didn't come off as jest or cynicism, if it did I apologize and that's not the way I intended it. I agree overall that LLMs will lower frictio

I hope my comment didn't come off as jest or cynicism, if it did I apologize and that's not the way I intended it. I agree overall that LLMs will lower friction and barriers to entry for some folks looking to get into hobby hacking, programming, or software engineering as a profession. Anecdotally, I think that's true beyond software. In wood working I find LLMs helpful when youtube leaves me with unanswered questions. More anecdotally, I have some high hopes for when LLMs can use tools, I think paired with the knowledge I've gained over the years that using an LLM that uses tools will be like the force multiplier I gain when using a compiler. To some degree, like any useful tool (eg: StackOverflow) there will be those who use it recklessly, but I'm less concerned about that because those people will always exist. The "anyone can do it" sentiment is highly inclusive, but also a bit falsey and what I took more disagreement with. I've met a good number of people who got into the industry of software engineering based on sentiments like that, thinking the job would eventually become "easy" and it never does for them. That or they falsely equivocate that sentiment with working at a FAANG, that these are just easy jobs where you get paid beaucoup bucks only to find out that's not so true, or at least not nearly as common as the sentiment invokes. That's worth being a bit cautious in language in my opinion, but I say that out of having experienced how hard it is to navigate this industry at times. To find out the things that you knew to be true that got you into it in the first place were false or falsey would be a big let down. I think these things are worth talking about and I don't want to make this industry look more gatekept than it is so I don't think I'm 100% right with my opinion, but I also don't want to give people false impressions. I appreciate you being willing to respond and talk about this stuff.