AI coding assistants haven’t been available for very long. If someone forgot how to write code manually already then they have bigger problems.

I don’t think the house factory analogy makes sense for multiple reasons. I subscribe to multiple LLM providers and switch between them all day. I could sign up for a dozen more to provide GLM 5.1 if I wanted to as well. I can even run lesser models locally on my machine.

This is nothing like a single factory because I can switch to a new provider in minutes with a credit card.