Yeah. I'm increasingly starting to think this LLM stuff is simply the first time many programmers have been able to not write boilerplate. They didn't learn to build abstractions so essentially live on whatever platform someone else has built for them. AI is simply that new platform.

I'm lazy af. I have not been manually typing up boilerplate for the past 15 years. I use computers to do repetitive tasks. LLMs are good at some of them, but it's just another tool in the box for me. For some it seems like their first and only one.

What I can't understand is how people are ok with all that typing that you still have to do just going into /dev/null while only some translation of what you wrote ends up in the codebase. That one makes me even less likely to want to type. At least if I'm writing source code I know it's going into the repository directly.

The one thing I’m always suspicious about is the actual mastery (programming language and computer usage) involved. You never see anyon describe the context of what they’ve been doing pre-llm.