Development speed is not a bottleneck

I completely disagree. As a scientist who does a lot of coding, the modern LLM tools give me ability to code something which previously I could not afford, because I simply did not have time for it. Now if I have an idea, I may be able to test it in an hour of tinkering with claude/gemini. I could technically still code it myself, but in some cases that would require maybe a day of work -- and I simply don't have that.

You mention one fabulous application of AI-supported coding that the article didn't touch upon. It's anything where the target customer group is me. All sorts of automation, pet projects, and serious stuff that improves research, too.

The context of the article is product development, with a bias toward the commercial part of the ecosystem. And of course, as any picture painted with broad strokes, some generalizations were inevitable.

As a scientist, you definitely are familiar with the weight (or lack thereof) of anecdotal evidence. Unless the claim is "it can never work" or "it always works," my individual experience is just that--an individual experience.

Im not a scientist, just a freelancer (kind of) and its similar for me. I know probably only 2 langauges fluently enough that i could write in them without constantly checking for syntax/docs, but over my whole programming journey i got to know multiple languages with different syntaxes, coding styles and patterns, so i can easily read code written in multiple languages and know whether given code will do what i want (and even if i wouldn't, LLM can explain the code for me and in the worst case send me to the documentation to validate it by myself).

Asking LLM for a code and then read/review it is a huge speed up for me in a lot of cases comparing to when i would need to write the same thing by myself (but i agree it may not work well in a big/complex systems... yet).