* "LLMs suck, are stupid, I hate them, and I'm not using them"
or
* "LLMs are the future and if you don't adapt you'll left behind"
I'm confident it's this 2nd option. Care to wager?
People might be using hyperbole: "You'll be left behind" = "you'll be out of a job" or "you'll be unemployable" or "You'll die" but they all mean the same thing.
Most of the "cutting edge" stuff I've seen is basically trying to scale the amount of parallel work that can be done, without any consideration to how much that costs, how much waste is generated, or if the output is even useful. Most of my coding time is spent thinking through problems. Which is exactly how I spent my time prior to LLMs.