The sales pitch is as good or better than if someone with full understanding did it themselves. Maybe that's true for the first one or two rounds, assuming it's something that isn't novel. Beyond that it's just not true.

Thing is Jill always could do that, she just didn’t leverage the information available.

Now Jill can make the reporting app, until it is sufficiently complex that the code collapses under its own weight or she finds that the numbers don’t actually mean what she thinks.

We had the internet for decades, with the sum of human knowledge largely available, no one used it.

Now those same uninspired masses are going to use to use the magic knowledge box to produce what they could never bring themselves to learn or research? No.

Just because the LLM can spit out code that looks good to you when you know what to ask for, does not mean that it is doing the same for everyone else.

Do you still care about the work?

More expensive, as good or worse at the job, and it runs in the terminal, because that's cool?

Most LLM users who are not touching code are certainly not going to be using a harness. They're going to take all the documents, slam all those tokens into the context window, see they have only used 500k out of their 1M tokens and say "summarize".

* than

They are convinced it needs to be a worse vscode when all I want is something to edit plain text files.

I wonder if this will continue to be the case.

I am seriously thinking of looking for another role because it is such a HOG.