A non-deterministic layer seems like exactly what would need a competent, professional to ensure a good outcome, so it doesn't follow that LLM usage would depress wage more than high-level languages depressed wages by opening up programming to tens of millions of people who could never grok assembly.

Counter-point: most developers have no idea or eagerness to actually do that debugging, so it doesn't really matter.

LLMs are one of the most general abstractions possible.

LLMs are also quite deterministic if you want them to be - generally, their final token selection is deliberately randomized (the model “temperature”). But the word you’re looking for here is probably not actually determinism, it’s probably something closer to predictability.

In any case, it’s perfectly possible to ensure that the output of LLMs is fully deterministic, debuggable, understandable, and testable.

> You cannot be serious.

I don’t think you’re thinking about this clearly.