Actually cutting code is maybe 10% of the job, and LLMs are absolute crap at the other 90%.
They can't build and maintain relationships with stakeholders. They can't tell you why what you ask them to do is unlikely to work out well in practice and suggest alternative designs. They can't identify, document and justify acceptance criteria. They can't domain model. They can't architect. They can't do large-scale refactoring. They can't do system-level optimization. They can't work with that weird-ass code generation tool that some hotshot baked deeply into the system 15 years ago. They can't figure out why that fence is sitting out in the middle of the field for no obvious reason. etc.
If that kind of stuff sounds like satisfying work to you, you should be fine. If it sounds terrible, you should pivot away now regardless of any concerns about LLMs, because, again, this is like 90% of the real work.
They can't build and maintain relationships with stakeholders. They can't tell you why what you ask them to do is unlikely to work out well in practice and suggest alternative designs. They can't identify, document and justify acceptance criteria. They can't domain model. They can't architect. They can't do large-scale refactoring. They can't do system-level optimization. They can't work with that weird-ass code generation tool that some hotshot baked deeply into the system 15 years ago. They can't figure out why that fence is sitting out in the middle of the field for no obvious reason. etc.
If that kind of stuff sounds like satisfying work to you, you should be fine. If it sounds terrible, you should pivot away now regardless of any concerns about LLMs, because, again, this is like 90% of the real work.