LLMs are smoking us (humans) in terms of lines of code written & read, and it's hard to not throw the baby out with the bathwater and say "learning to code is pointless". I have this example I keep running through my head though: "If I had half the experience I have right now, would LLMs for coding meaningfully make up that difference"? Like, does my experience matter anymore? The answer for now is a resounding yes. That's because understanding the landscape you are working in is still critical for steering an LLM, after all if you don't have experience, you don't know what questions to ask.

Based on that answer, my stance is that as a developer I still need to be learning new stuff and growing. The challenge, is using LLMs makes it easy to cut corners, and to feel like you are learning. Actually learning requires doing - and so for me, for now, that counterintuitively means I still need to be writing code by hand.

That doesn't negate the need to learn to use LLMs effectively - running a company, it's important to take advantage of tech that helps you reach your objectives. LLMs are like any other tech in that regard - I'm not rolling my own database & auth, and I shouldn't be writing all my code by hand either.