>>jinhku+(OP)
First you must accept that engineering elegance != market value. Only certain applications and business models need the crème de le crème of engineers.
LLM has been hollowing out the mid and lower end of engineering. But has not eroded highest end. Otherwise all the LLM companies wouldn’t pay for talent, they’d just use their own LLM.
>>monero+M9
Based on my experience using Claude opus 4.5, it doesn't really even get functionality correct. It'll get scaffolding stuff right if you tell it exactly what you want but as soon as you tell it to do testing and features it ranges from mediocre to worse than useless.