Because like any tool, it can be used thoughtfully and it can be used carelessly. There are use cases where LLMs help with coding (and they are growing as the

Because like any tool, it can be used thoughtfully and it can be used carelessly. There are use cases where LLMs help with coding (and they are growing as the things get better), but even if they could do as well as an experienced engineer at doing a first draft (which, debatable in any setting and falls off sharply once it's not a highly mainstream setting), a first draft is almost never a high-quality artifact. They can also be used to get a sort of minimum viable diff that represents a liability to the codebase and those who maintain and depend on it, to do this with very little effort and therefore impose the negative externalities on someone else. Anecdotally this seems to be a distressingly common use case. I'm more than a little concerned that software quality is about to take an abrupt turn for the worse in aggregate. More broadly, if you're anything like most people I know, the products you're using are getting better all the time... at making money for the companies that build them. Consumer Internet profits and/or valuations are at something like an all time high. All that lag and jank and spam and shit? That's not easy code to write or simple infrastructure to operate. That's full-metal-jacket monetization at great effort and expense.