> I feel like we aren't allowed to be honest anymore that LLMs aren't going to replace programmers or moderate our expectations. I haven't heard anyone in tech

> I feel like we aren't allowed to be honest anymore that LLMs aren't going to replace programmers or moderate our expectations. I haven't heard anyone in tech say programmers will be replaced by this tech. I have heard persons outside of tech say it, but I think they lack sufficient context. I mean, if we get AGI, yes, we might be fully out of a job. But, so far I think many programmers agree this seems to be a ways off. But, I think you underestimate how many programmers used to copy paste code from StackOverflow and articles, etc. We even had/have a phrase for that: "copy pasta". Those programmers are getting more applicable templated code than they used to get via copy paste. When I'm coding in my preferred languages, I am faster without AI. But, when I'm writing yaml or something else for an unfamiliar tool or platform, I do get a productivity boost, even if I have to debug the code / configuration.