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It's not a "themselves". It's large corporations trying to make programmers unnecessary.
It's like blaming Tesla test drivers for making taxi drivers unnecessary.
But it's very far from the point where programmers would be unnecessary.
LLMs lack any understanding of the bigger picture. They work for tiny throwaway tasks that you won't use in the future. The stuff they make is hardly runnable, let alone maintainable. It usually needs multiple rounds of asking it to do the right thing before you get anything remotely worth your time.
The feedback loop with static code analysis and so on generally doesn't work. Once an LLM gets lost enough to produce compiler errors (which happens quite fast) it gets completely lost, since it then only focusses on fixing the compiler errors while totally forgetting what the actual task was. So it will change the program so that it compiles, but then it will not do what it was supposed to do.
It's a hot mess.
Studies say that using LLM while programming reduces measured performance of the programmer by 20-30% as soon as the task isn't something entirely trivial.
Edit: When an LLM gets into that compiler error loop, it's like taking a non-compiling program written by a first-year student and handing it and the compiler output to the rest of the class and everyone sequentially gets a shot at fixing it while completely ignoring anything the others have done befora apart from taking their code as input.