That was just as true a decade ago, and two decades ago, as it is today.

Bad “software engineers” have always existed. That hasn’t changed.

Sure, but now they will be LLMs , which is the point; they won't be millions of humans who get paid. The point of GP was that it doesn't replace programmers; it does and will more so, at scale, because LLMs are better than all the bad ones and that's the majority, by far.