> No, you see this line or argumentation on every post critical of LLM's deficiencies. "Humans also produce bad code", "Humans also make mistakes" etc etc.

So your reading of this is that it's a deflection of the shortcomings?

My reading of it is that both humans and LLMs suck at all sorts of tasks, often in slightly different ways.

One being bad at something doesn't immediately make the other good if it also sucks - it might, however, suggest that there are issues with the task itself (e.g. in regards to code: no proper tests and harnesses of various scripts that push whoever is writing new code in the direction of being correct and successful).