And why wouldn’t writing software be a skill issue? Yes, it’s an annoying meme, but we should expect that there are better and worse ways to write software. It would be weird if everyone got the same results regardless of experience.

I’m doubtful that the author’s recommendation always work, but I do some similar things and they do seem to help.

In a way it reminds me of the good old "if agile doesn't work for you, you're not doing agile right".

It actually is though?

Though arguably more of a process and judgement issue than skill.

What makes LLM-generated code a bit special there is that misjudging how to deal with it seems to be what most people do. So the default is broken.

Whereas in prior iterations of "skill issue", the default was working.

What's a crash going to do? The internet didn't disappear after the dot com bubble popped.

It is indeed skill issue.

You don't think crash will happen because XYZ. You _wish_ for the crash because you are hateful of progress that you are not part of.

What were people worshipping Musk for 5-6 years ago?

LLMs are not magical tools which take slop as input, and produce well thought out documentation and tests and code as a result.

Over the last year, LLM coding agents gotten pretty good. It's no longer "if your results suck, you gotta try the latest and greatest model". You can get capable results on a wide variety of tasks, with a wide variety of models, used in a wide variety of ways.

I think the point is just it doesn’t have to get worse, so there are things you can do to prevent / change it if it is deteriorating.