Are you asking, essentially, to move past the data and evidence and get anecdotes? That seems the opposite of useful, and tbh LLM coding has wayyyy too much anecdotal 'evidence' going on.

> I was waiting for the "so I tried coding something with an LLM myself, and I found..."

Why? Most of the article was about the productivity of teams.

> This is a very academic approach to the subject - read what other people have written about it

Meta-studies have tremendous value. He's asking a simple question: if LLMs are changing the world, let's look at what studies are showing.

> My experience has been remarkable, and, like others, I'm finding real joy in being able to move past the code to actually design and play with whole systems and architectures

Great! What does that have to do with the age-old problem that software development doesn't scale to teams well? It is indeed a "50 year old problem", so please tell us how LLMs solve it.

The problem I have with it is the price (I am not talking about the money). I don't know if the price is worth it. For example we are literally witnessing the death of the personal computers, it will soon become a rich people's hobby. I don't know how the whole Free Software/Open source will survive that.

At best we will end up not owning nothing, not even the programming skills as everyone will be at the mercy of AI companies for their coding.

We are still in the honey moon phase of AI coding, I have a very pessimistic view of the future.