My sample might be biased (it comes from places like the Python Discord) but from what I've seen of how people completely new to programming typically use LLMs, this is decidedly not the case. It could work if people had an instinct to turn the LLM into a tutor and attempt to verify everything manually. But in practice, people ask the LLM to do things for them, and turn to humans when the LLM gets stuck.

You keep your LLMs I’ll keep my forums.

Forum as a task oriented knowledge sharing site? Sure, but even stack overflow had obsoleted that. But that’s only one type of traditional forum, and I’d say a minority one at that. The main purpose was communities and the threats there are the same as they always were - social media, and chat apps. I’d say discord is the biggest impact there

Aren‘t the LLMs going to starve if there is no more organic data to feed off?

What a weird idea. I've found the Typst forum very helpful a number of times. I've never yet engaged willingly with an LLM, and do not intend to.

I take it you've never been on a phone call, waiting until you get the chance to talk to a real human?

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