> People who claim “LLMs can write decent code” don’t understand how code works.

It's not clear to me if the claim is:

(1) "If you used an LLM to generate code, and the code works, you're wrong if you think the code is okay"

or

(2) "If you used an LLM to generate code, you reviewed the code and found it to be of decent quality, then you're wrong".

> If you’re toying around, LLMs do a great job. That’s why some of the most aggressive proponents of the “coding is solved” narrative have nothing to show for it.

I also don't get the "LLM proponents have nothing to show for it" statement.

It's really quite common now to see on HN all sorts of LLM-assisted programming projects. The quality varies from slop where little thought was put into it, to high quality results where LLM coding assistance was able to let talented developers produce things they otherwise wouldn't have time to do.

I'd say it's obvious that LLM coding agents can be very useful for a lot of programming related tasks.

EDIT: That is to say, LLMs are obviously useful for use cases above/beyond toying around. It's not a dichotomy between "I'm never touching an AI" and "thoughtlessly accepting everything the LLM outputs".