To be honest you sound super defensive, not just in a classic programmer when someone invades on their turf sort of way, but also in the classic way people who are reluctant to accept a new technology

This sentiment of, a human will always be needed, there’s no replacement for human touch, the stakes are too high, is as old as time

You just said, quite literally, that people leveraging LLMs to code are not doing it at your level - that’s borders on hubris

The fact of the matter is that like most tools, you get out of AI what you put into it

I know a lot of engineers and this pride, this reluctance to accept the help is super common

The best engineers on the other hand are leveraging this just fine, just another tool for them that speeds things up