alt Hacker News> At big tech over 40% of checked in code is LLM generated.
Assuming this is true though, how much of that 40% is boilerplate or simple, low effort code that could have been knocked out in a few minutes previously? It's always been the case that 10% of the code is particularly thorny and takes 80% of the time, or whatever.
Not to discount your overall point, LLMs are definitely a technical success.
Before LLMs I used whatever autocomplete tech came with VSCode and the plugins I used. Now with Cursor a lot of what the autocomplete did is replaced with LLM output, at much greater cost. Counting this in the "LLM generated" statistic is misleading at best, and I'm sure it's being counted