"The ability to actually build something—to turn a napkin sketch into working software—was the thing that separated dreamers from builders. It’s what made you valuable."

There is also the matter of having ideas that are good and knowing how to make them into good software, not something that simply "technically works". LLMs are not enough to overcome this barrier, and the author's examples seem to prove the point. The "working products with test suites, documentation, and polish" that are just another batch of LLM front-ends are frankly unimpressive. Is this the best that AI can offer?