I think the idea was that LLMs can allow someone who has no idea how to code, to write a prompt that can in fact output some working code. This is greatly raising their skill floor, as opposed to a senior where at best it’s doing something they already can do, just faster.

The elephant in the room being that if you aren’t senior enough to have written the code you’ll probably run into a catastrophic bug that you are incapable of fixing (or prompting the LLM to fix) very very quickly.

Really it’s just the next iteration of no-code hype where people dream of building apps without code, but then reality always come back to the fact that the essential skill of programmers is to understand and design highly structured and rigid logical systems. Code is just a means of specification. LLMs make it easier to leverage code patterns that have been written over and over by the hundreds of thousands of programmers that have contributed to its training corpus, but they can not replace the precision of thought needed to make a hand-wavy idea into a concrete system that actually behaves in a way that humans find useful.