There are still significant limitations, no amount of prompting will get current models to approach abstraction and architecture the way a person does. But I'm finding that these Gemini models are finally able to replace searches and stackoverflow for a lot of my day-to-day programming.
I find this sentiment increasingly worrisome. It's entirely clear that every last human will be beaten on code design in the upcoming years (I am not going to argue if it's 1 or 5 years away, who cares?)
I wished people would just stop holding on to what amounts to nothing, and think and talk more about what can be done in a new world. We need good ideas and I think this could be a place to advance them.
I wouldn't worry about it because, as you say, "in a new world". The old will simply "die".
We're in the midsts of a paradigm shift and it's here to stay. The key is the speed at which it hit and how much it changed. GPT3 overnight changed the game and huge chunks of people are mentally struggling to keep up - in particular education.
But people who resist AI will become the laggards.