@0xabad1dea A really great article, but I disagree on one point:

They would like to describe what they want and receive Whatever — some beige sludge that vaguely resembles it. That isn’t programming, though. That’s management, a fairly different job. I’m not interested in managing

That's not management, that's terrible management. Good management is a conversation about priorities with people who have coalface knowledge and can help frame the problem sensibly. Good management involves working to help your reports develop and become more productive. This is like managing an outsourced workforce from the lowest bidder with 100% turnover each week. Which isn't fun even if you find management rewarding.

And I didn’t cherry-pick this example! They chose it!

And this isn't the only example of this. The Amazon equivalent had a long blog post where they waxed lyrical about some Python code that would find a set of primes. The algorithm was worse than the one that I came up with when I was 10 and implemented in QBASIC (which was worse than the one Eratosthenes came up with 2000 or so years earlier). This was terrible code. Code that I would have been faintly embarrassed to have written when I was a teenager. And that was their cherry-picked example of how amazing it is. And that seems to be the case with all of these bullshit generators: even the cherry picked examples of how amazing they are turn out to be pretty bad if you give them more than a cursory glance. Which shows how much the people selling them value attention to detail.