"I don’t think models like this will ever be able to program," I don't get how anybody who has used the SOTA models in the last 3-4 months can write a sentence

"I don’t think models like this will ever be able to program," I don't get how anybody who has used the SOTA models in the last 3-4 months can write a sentence like this? They most certainly can program. And usually better than 90% of my coworkers. The question is really.. Can they engineer? By which I mean handle the duties of a software engineer working in a team, managing a large complex system, making reviewable pieces, forward progress in incremental steps, etc. No, that part I'm definitely more skeptical about. That requires slave driving by the person in front of the prompt. But this is a useful distinction to make. Because making overly pessimistic claims about the coding capabilities of the models makes me question the author's experiences with them. I think agentic tools are toxic to team programming culture and engineering that produces reliable stable results. But I wouldn't for the life of me question their ability to write programs.