I absolutely agree that it's a spectrum. I don't deny the usefulness of some LLMs (and I have used Claude 3.5 lately with great success -- it helped me iterate on some very annoying code with very niche library that I would have needed days to properly decipher myself). I got annoyed by the grandiose claims though so likely got a bit worked up.

And indeed:

> “AI is AGI and can do everything and your career is done for”

...this is the thing I want to stop seeing people even imply it's happening. An LLM helped you? Cool, it helped me as well. Stop claiming that programming is done for. It's VERY far from that.