Is it not the case that "production level code" coming out of these processes makes the whole system of coder-plus-machine weaker?

I find it to be a good thing that the code must be read in order to be production-grade, because that implies the coder must keep learning.

I worry about the collapse in knowledge pipeline when there is very little benefit to overseeing the process...

I say that as a bad coder who can and has done SO MUCH MORE with llm agents. So I'm not writing this as someone who has an ideal of coding that is being eroded. I'm just entering the realm of "what elite coding can do" with LLMs, but I worry for what the realm will lose, even as I'm just arriving