Absolutely. I posted a similar experience developing a Chrome extension with GPT 4o in a hour or so when it would have taken me at least a day to do on my own. I have no idea how people are hand waving LLMs away as no big deal.
I think the only justification for such a position is if you are a graybeard with full mastery of a stack and that's all you work in. I've dealt with these guys over the years and they are indeed wizards at Rails or Django or what have you. In those cases, I could see the argument that they are actually more efficient than an LLM when working on their specialty.
Which I guess is the difference. I'm a generalist and I'm often working in technologies that I have little experience in. To me LLMs are a invaluable for this. They're like pair programming with somebody that has memorized all of Stack Overflow.
I think the only justification for such a position is if you are a graybeard with full mastery of a stack and that's all you work in. I've dealt with these guys over the years and they are indeed wizards at Rails or Django or what have you. In those cases, I could see the argument that they are actually more efficient than an LLM when working on their specialty.
Which I guess is the difference. I'm a generalist and I'm often working in technologies that I have little experience in. To me LLMs are a invaluable for this. They're like pair programming with somebody that has memorized all of Stack Overflow.