>whereas someone learning today from scratch using LLMs could give you good advice on what the real difficulties are

if we're talking about the LLM usage as described in the article, they can't do that by definition because they're not learning. You can replace the word "model" in the article with "guy I hired on fiver" and there would be no difference. They outsourced the building of a product.

If you're having robots lift weights for you at the gym it's a moot point to ask what the real problem with your form is, you don't even have one.

You can use an LLM as a kind of tutor to ask it questions the same way you'd google, but you can't actually substitute the programming if you want to learn programming