>Nobody is seriously deferring work to an LLM unless they're that desperate (different problem)

Yes they are. Read some of the comments on this website and you'll hear that many people no longer write or read their own fucking code.

I'm not disagreeing. Many people didn't read or write their own code a decade ago either! hah

LLMs are the ultimate content scraper. That may have a chilling effect, but it's not a new effect. Where/why do people think LLMs were being used before the ChatGPT and later hype?