Seriously. It's not even dishonest. And I think that is precisely what is behind these absurd conversations.

They have given out little "engineer" and "architect" sincecures to so many code monkeys. Now when they see an LLM can do what they do, which they have been led to believe is engineering, they domain transfer their misunderstanding into absurd conclusions.

How many automation waves have washed through. If you are a tool monkey you get replaced when your tools gets automated. That's just a normal part of software.

If a machine can replace you, you were doing mechanical work. No shame in that, if it was honest, but it doesn't mean that the machines are doing human things. It means you, in your job, weren't.

And if you think software is a mechanical process, just because it has certain mechanical outcomes, you don't know what engineers and architects actually do.

I assume they don't understand what LLMs are, or what their hard limitations are either. They don't understand what out-of-domain means.

Sorry for ranting. C'est la vie