alt Hacker News> You would know this if you had any idea what actually goes into it
Goes into what? Into typing code or into creating LLMs?
Overall I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, nor why you feel bad about it. Mind explaining to a simpleton like me with simpler words and concepts?
I understand what he means.
Software can be about the beauty in an algorithm, the elegance of an implementation. This is very similar to the type of beauty and elegance one finds in Mathematics.
For many, writing software is more about crafting a beautiful design than typing lines of code.
Getting things done is not about crafting, though (although crafting IS about getting something done).
Thus the big clash when suddenly you can get things done well enough, without the craft part, with LLMs. Even if beauty and elegance are in there, most would not see it, because most do not want to review "LLM slop". They get things done.