> There was a time when all tables were made by hand. [...] Then the industrialisation came; factories started making tables. [...] Software development is just in the middle of this transition, [...]

Sorry, but that transition already happened. A long time ago. It was when compilers replaced hand-written assembly.

What we're talking about would be more like the design phase, where someone prepares the molds and tooling which will be used by the factories to make the tables. Even that has already been partially automated, with CAD/CAM on physical manufacturing, and IDEs in software development.

The current usage of LLMs for software development, has AFAIK no analogue on the physical manufacturing side, so we can't reason by analogy there.