> Using LLMs in a useful way I would argue is a much more important skill than programming as was learning how to make programming useful was always the more important skill, but it depends on if you view programming as a means to an end or the end in and of itself.

No, it's not. As evidence of intelligence atrophy, I offer up this word salad that barely makes any sense as evidence: someone barely able to write a coherent thought can apparently produce working software.