100 times this. Maybe this was the thing all along that was so difficult to put our finger on for why some engineers seem to have "it" while so many others, despite being productive, don't. It's just that they loved it. It brings me so much sadness to see so many people happily relegate themselves to typists instead of a person with real motivations and skills.

If there's one thing I've remarked, even before LLM tooling, is that there's a class of people that is ready to try things for weeks until it magically work (with no guarantee it will hold), instead of spending one hour designing it and formalizing it. They won't get functional abstraction, maintainability means nothing to them, and architecture don't matter.

They're the one copy-pasting straight from StackOverflow, and if it does not work, will copy-paste something over it. When something works, they will copy-paste it all over the codebase regardless of context.

For those people, LLM tooling are the Second Coming. Because it helps them eliminate all the telltale signs of bad works they've been doing. For them, "Use the AI" is the new mantra because they can't imagine not needing to use it.