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I think you are fighting a strawman here. These models are far from perfect, and critique is certainly needed to improve them.

That being said, I don't think saying that the model outputs information from its training set adds a lot to the discussion because -- and that's my point -- the same is true for human software developers most of the time (yes, the 90% is a made up number). This isn't meant at all to criticize the skills of the developers, but rather point out that most of our work is just much less interesting than we'd like it to be, and could be automated.

Also, I don't think developers will be replaced by AI, just like they were not replaced by code generators, build scripts, IDE auto-complete, IDE rename all usages, and so on. What might happen is that they will no longer have to write mind-numbing boilerplate code, which IMHO is a good thing.