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It does let beginners do a lot more than they are capable of currently.

But these are people that wanted to be in programming in the first place.

This "my mom can now code and got a job because of LLMs" myth, does this creature really exist in the wild?

No, it lets good engineers parallelize work. I can be adding a route to the backend while Cline with Sonnet 3.7 adds a button to the frontend. Boilerplate work that would take 20-30 minutes is handled by a coding agent. With Claude writing some of the backend routes with supervision, you've got a very efficient workflow. I do something like this daily in a 80k loc codebase.

I look forward to good standard integrations to assign a ticket to an agent and let it go through ci and up for a preview deploy & pr. I think there's lots of smaller issues that could be raised and sorted without much intervention.

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