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Who said "unlimited powers", other than you? That seems like an intentional distortion of the article, which says "LLMs can write a large fraction of all the tedious code you’ll ever need to write". Doing most of my tedious work is very different than "unlimited powers".

I use AI to chew through tedious work all the time. In fact, I let an agent do some work just before I checked HN to read your claim that it can't do that. Everyone at my job does the same, perhaps modulo checking HN. But there's no 'unlimited power' to show you - we're just about 30% faster than we used to be.

>>johnfn+(OP)
You might be 30% faster, but not everyone is doing your job specific with your exact skill set. I suspect the range is like -5% to 50%, the question nobody can answer is what the average is because things are so diverse and nobody is collecting good data.

In decades of programming I’ve written very little tedious code, but that’s as much about the projects I’ve worked on as approach I use.