You’ve Been Sold a Lie About AI Coding. It’s Just Low-Code with Better Marketing.
LLMs are not a revolution in programmingโthey’re just the latest abstraction layer, exactly like low-code and no-code platforms. The real bottleneck isn’t the model’s code generation; it’s the user’s ability to specify intent precisely. This deflation of hype is both comforting and disappointing: no AGI shortcut, just a familiar evolution that still requires human oversight, debugging, and domain understanding.