For those OOTL (like I was):

https://time.com/7285796/james-comey-86-47-trump-threat-investigation-instagram-post-fbi/

Let me sell you a Trump steak.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Steaks

The vast majority of coding isn’t making something new, it’s using existing patterns and tools and arranging them to fit a specific use case.

I would argue that arranging something to fit a specific use case is making something new.

Ask any designer how difficult it is to get a spec sheet from a client and meet their expectations. We’re expecting LLMs to suddenly solve this problem.

Llms may not be able to create a new framework or design pattern

Until they can do this, there is little threat to designers. There will be less grunt work, of course.

The sad reality is that code is just a form of language, and LLMs are good at learning languages.

This is debatable. LLMs are prediction machines.

What use is prediction when you are trying to code something new?

All analogies have flaws. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t be an analogy, they would be describing the very thing itself.