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I don't get how so many software folks cling to LLMs, like, I'm sorry but every time I've given them a try the result is dogshit. & I promise I'm not holding it wrong! Even excluding externalities, it's just not good at what it's sold to do! If you think it is, I worry about your judgement.

If you write code today in Python - you focus on the python - but behind the scenes it ends up being machine code. You care about the python. You don't worry about the machine code. Some developers will write in LLM prompts. They won't care about how good the machine code is either. It will suck

Eh, it's a false equivalency. It's more like if they were writing Python but the runtime was a group of 100 people who've known a single programming language for 4 weeks trying to execute your code one line at a time without talking to each other.

Absolutely - but they will write their 'spec' as prompts, and have it generate code. They won't read the code, or tweak the code. They will tweak the spec, and completely regenerate completely new code. The waste is going to be immense - but they won't see it - and they won't care.