I don't believe anything I see online anymore. Payola is everywhere and people are happy to sell their professional souls for little more than likes and free LLM credits.
Deeper still is this: The group that openly relies on LLMs to code is likely the first group to be replaced by LLMs, since they've already identified the recipe that the organization needs to replace them.
More broadly, we live in an age where marketing is crucial to getting noticed, where good work alone is not sufficient and you have the perfect scenario for people to market themselves out of the workforce.
Deeper still is this: The group that openly relies on LLMs to code is likely the first group to be replaced by LLMs, since they've already identified the recipe that the organization needs to replace them.
More broadly, we live in an age where marketing is crucial to getting noticed, where good work alone is not sufficient and you have the perfect scenario for people to market themselves out of the workforce.