"the code actually looked pretty good. Not perfect, but I just told the AI to fix things, and it did. I was shocked."
These two views are by no means mutually exclusive. I find LLMs extremely useful and still believe they are glorified Markov generators.
The take away should be that that is all you need and humans likely are nothing more than that.
As soon as compression happens, optimization happens which can lead to rules/learning of principles which got feed by statistics.