alt Hacker News> At the same time, humans can move up the abstraction ladder faster than the LLMs can
This was kind of the point, its only true for now. I agree with you that this kind of stuff will take longer. I don't think there's probably good training data for it right now. Handling abstractions and course correcting is probably the job now, and it also happens to be exactly the data that we will be typing in our prompts. They'll train on it or something like it.
Unless something radical changes (and that isn't unprecedented! I'm just writing this as of today), the trend is still "just" a bigger hammer. It's bigger, you can get way more done, but the blast radius is also larger.
Take the strawman: even if AI can one-shot basically any application below let's say, 1MLoC, if your prompt is 4 lines, it will generate something. It can't read your mind. If you make proper specs, then you'll get what you want - but many people don't know what they want. And even if they do, they might have contradictions in their requirements, might be asking for something impossible, etc.