What worries me more is the steep decline in code quality. The python and javascript output I've seen the supposed best LLM's generate is inefficient, overly verbose and needlessly commented at best, and simply full of bugs at worst. In the best case they're glaringly obvious bugs, in the worst case they're subtle ones that will wreak havoc for a long time before they're eventually discovered, but by then the grasp of the developers on the codebase will have slipped away far enough to prevent them from being compete t enough to solve the bugs.

There is no doubt in my mind that software quality has taken a nosedive everywhere AI has been introduced. Our entire industry is hallucinating its way into a bottomless pit.

I'm very cautious about using LLM-generated code in production, but for one-off throwaway scripts that generate output I can manually verify, LLMs are a huge time saver.