alt Hacker NewsLLM coding splits up engineers based on those who primarily like building and those who primarily like code reviews and quality assessment. I definitely don’t love the latter (especially when reviewing decisions not made by a human with whom I can build long-term personal rapport).
After certain experience threshold of making things from scratch, “coding” (never particularly liked that term) has always been 99% building, or architecture, and I struggle to see how often a well-architected solution today, with modern high-level abstractions, requires so much code that you’d save significant time and effort by not having to just type, possibly with basic deterministic autocomplete, exactly what you mean (especially considering you would have to also spend time and effort reviewing whatever was typed for you if you used a non-deterministic autocomplete).
See, I don't take it that extreme: LLMs make fantastic, never-before seen quality autocompletes. I hacked together a Neovim plugin that prompts an LLM to "finish this function" on command, and it's a big time save for the menial plumbing type operations. Think things like "this api I use expects JSON that encodes some subset of SQL, I want all the dogs with Ls in their name that were born on a Tuesday". Given an example of such API (or if the documentation ended up in its training), LLMs will consistently one-shot stuff like that.
Asking it to do entire projects? Dumb. You end up with spaghetti, unless you hand-hold it to a point that you might as well be using my autocomplete method.