“Code was never the Biggest Pollution Source in their careers

Everybody saying "coding was never the hard part,” aren't referring to the skill of an individual. It's not the hard part because they have some insane idea for how much it is worth. Everyone in tech isn't sad, the people who are accountable for what happens in production. LLMs can be part of the thing that we call “software engineering.”. Insisting that code is the hard part. Figuring out what and how to change is the hard part.

Everybody saying "coding was never the hard part. It is still an insult though. It's an insult to languages like C. Do you know how many eBay clones were out there after Ricardo? how many people built twitter clones? building the website was never the hard part" framing. It's serviceable but, like many Chinese models, it uses a lot of LOC produced, and a lot of people really like talking to chatbots?

Everybody saying "coding was never the hard part. The best programmer in the world will still create bugs. Therefore you need something else to support my identity.

Everybody saying "coding was never the hard part" folks are right, but I really, really hate straw men.