Similar arguments have been made about Git UIs and automated tools, and of course most people who depend on such things also depend on others to bail them out in difficult situations with git.

So it just becomes a question about whether or not it's part of your core value proposition. For many developers, the answer is obviously no. And then outsourcing those things to automation, including LLMs, seems fine.

But if you can outsource your job, so can everyone else. If the LLM (or ide or any other tool) just needs someone to vaguely press the "next" button to do your job, well, your boss and everyone else can press that button too.

Outsource carefully. Know the value you provide.

I constantly hear other engineers talk about how knowing the cli, git, Linux, whatever is useless. But then I’m the one that gets called when shit breaks, so it must not be that useless. If knowing how shit works at a low level is so useless they why do I need to bail colleagues out so much.