[nyssos]

You're presuming too much about what OP's quality standards are. Can SOTA models outperform the average junior engineer? Yes, obviously. Can they match the best human engineers, if those humans were given all the time and interest in the world? Equally obviously not.

I use hundreds of millions of tokens a month, and LLMs have completely transformed the way I work. They're also, frankly, pretty mid programmers.

[dilyevsky]

most people are around mid by definition. mid is good. a lot of companies pay good money to find mid devs.

[nyssos]

Yes, and? Something can be both scare and inadequate to a given task. FAANG L5s cost a pretty penny but I wouldn't trust a random one to prove a crypto library correct.

[dilyevsky]

Number of people who i personally met and would entrust a crypto library to i can count on one hand. You're moving that goalpost at relativistic speeds now.