I can see where you're coming from, and I share the sentiment and resentment to a large degree, but I think you might be not doing reality justice.

It is true that closed weights models are a big issue. It is also true that LLM-generated solutions usually drift towards a median.

But that is not the dead end you think it might be.

Most coding work is repetitive boilerplate, and most typing is just.. well.. typing. Miserable work I too did not really enjoy. What I did enjoy were the end results, and that was just a necessary step to get there.

Now that's less the case than it was before we had LLMs, and for that I too am glad.

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I think the article headline might've primed you (and me, fwiw) to reading the comment you're replying to as passive. But if you just look at the words of it, that might not actually be the case.