[julienchastang]

The LLMs debates have been raging for a while now, and I think this is one of the most insightful comments I've read on this topic. I also think what you describe can also be applied to writing with LLMs. In short, your idea of a 3rd way forward, i.e., bespoke coding (or writing) is the only viable path forward, but using LLMs to accelerate that. This is actually sort of what I have been doing with my use of LLMs. The problem is you have to be really careful in not letting yourself take mental shortcuts as LLMs can sometime produce deceivingly dazzling results until you realize some of that is front of you is BS, however it did still produce something useful that you now have to clean up leading to productivity gains.