All metaphors break down at a certain point, but power tools and generative AI/LLMs being compared feels like somebody is romanticizing the art of programming a bit too much.

Copyright law, education, just the sheer scale of things changing because of LLMs are some things off the top of my head why "power tools vs carpentry" is a bad analogy.

if that someone is clumsy, had an active war going on against basic tools before, and wandered into the carpentry from completely different area, then power tools might be a bad idea.