I'm impressed by how good LLMs are at writing code, compared to how poor they are at some other tasks. Perhaps software dev is more pattern- (and thus knowledge-) based and less creative than many believe. And much of it is boilerplate after all.
CCP (cut-copy-paste) engineering has been a thing -- especially with the rise of StackOverflow.
Code is structured and generates very predictable outputs so LLMs will probably always be ahead of expressing ideas in messy languages like English.
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