alt Hacker NewsI think this is a straw man.
> the polarized differences in opinions on HN about the quality of LLM-produced code
Are there strong differences of opinion about the quality? I've seen very few people claim that LLMs write better code than they do.
> one shots things it would take me days to do, and has made me 10X more productive
This is an entirely different claim from the former, and you're conflating them.
The boost from LLM-assisted code isn't _expertise_, it's the power of having an always-on team of reasonable junior developers from every discipline you can possibly imagine willing to do your whim.
Take for example Jesse Vincent / obra[0], who is an exceptional developer, with great taste, and a stack of well-received open-source software to his name. He posts a lot on how he's being made more productive by AI-assisted development. Do you have bad news for him about the quality of his work...?