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An interesting way to try to spin disposable spaghetti code as a positive.
I think ignoring that a tool has valuable uses is cutting off the nose to spite the face in a way.
While LLMs are annoying as fuck to deal with and work with with corporate CEOs telling all of us to "Use them or face unemployment"; it cannot be ignored that they have valuable use cases.
This article tries to identify the real world use case for an AI/LLM, which is as an ephemeral problem solving machine, much like google or stack overflow has been in the past, just on steroids.
Once you're done with the solution: throw it away.
LLMs are not to be trusted to write software, but they can generate code to solve mundane problems encountered during software development.