> A huge reason VCs and tech tycoons put billions into funding LLMs was so they could undermine coders and depress wages
is just pure speculation, totally unsupported, and almost certainly untrue, and makes very little sense given the way LLMs and ChatGPT in particular came about. Every time I read something from Anil Dash it seems like it's this absolutely braindead sort of "analysis".
What AI usage has underlined is that we are forever bound by our ability to communicate precisely what we want the AI to do for us. Even if LLMs are perfect, if we give it squishy instructions we get squishy results. If we give it a well-crafted objective and appropriate context and all the rest, it can respond just about perfectly. Then again, that is a lot of what programming has always been about in the first place - translate human goals into actionable code. Only the interface and abstraction level has changed.