People should realize that programming is not a liability. Programming per se is the actual creation of detailed knowledge by writing.

You get a task, how does it interact with all other invariants? What are the implications on data flow, processing and user workflows? You can rarely answer those questions beforehand, you step on them during programming as the formal language forces you to take them into account sooner or later.

If you outsource this knowledge-building you’re losing the steering ability when stuff hits the fan. You lose the ability to navigate the code properly in order to identify bug or violations of invariants.

LLM optimize locally, that’s their nature. Invariants are often implicitly scattered around the whole code base. Explaining them to the LLM is much more tedious than just to write the code in the first place. At least for me as I have much better expression-ability in Code than in natural language when it comes to describing any form of computation.