> These LLMs are prediction machines. They are text generators that are ultimately a bunch of fancy statistics

Yeah yeah back to Reddit

For real though: you can keep doing artisanal hand-written code as a hobby. Just like you can still write a web server in assembly if you really want to. But that’s just not how professional software development is done anymore. Just a new tool, I don’t think it’s as deep as the author is making it out to be.