LLM coding assistants are more like another iteration in the jump from nothing -> Stack Overflow type resources than a replacement for you doing coding work as

LLM coding assistants are more like another iteration in the jump from nothing -> Stack Overflow type resources than a replacement for you doing coding work as a programmer just because you can phrase the task as a prompt. If you measured the value of using resources like tutorials Stack Overflow posts by blindly merging the first 2 hundred line examples of the things you want to do, finding the result wasn't ideal, and declaring it a useless way to get functional code people would (rightfully) scratch their heads at you when you say they are living in a different world. Of course it didn't work right away, perhaps it was still better than figuring all of the boilerplate out on your own the first time you did it?