“Extraordinarily talented people are doing work that LLMs already do better, out of spite.”
Ptacek’s case is that a $20 a month tool beats an intern and skeptics are holding out from spite. In the same post he admits almost nothing it writes merges without edits. He also says LLMs might displace many developers and he has no clue whether that is good. Licensing concerns get told where to shove it, except for visual artists.