I don't think they're good coders at all, I think they're good at generating small snippets of codes. If you tried to replace a programmer with whatever LLM it

I don't think they're good coders at all, I think they're good at generating small snippets of codes. If you tried to replace a programmer with whatever LLM it would completely flop. Just write a script to fetch Jira tickets and let it rip - it won't work well. Because it doesn't know that maybe the Jira ticket is stupid, or that if they implement this change it requires insight from Team X, or that this bug is really intended behavior, etc. Being a programmer is much more than, like, making a neat regular expression or generating slightly customized boilerplate. As it stands, these are assistants in which programmers guide and handhold them the whole way. They are not coders.