In my opinion, LLMs are not competing with real programmers because they do different things.
The job of a programmer requires a lot of responsibility and understanding.
Using LLMs to write code does not help with that.
You may say that they do compete because companies treat them as the same thing and people need to make money, so the companies decide what is what.
That is true but the solution should not be to give in to the money, but instead to make the money behave correctly.
What we need to do is to fix the economy, which still assumes that products are physical and hasn't been adjusted for the digital reality we have now, let alone the AI.
Money was invented by humans, not discovered in nature, and we should therefore make it do what we need instead of letting it steer us the wrong way.
You may say that they do compete because companies treat them as the same thing and people need to make money, so the companies decide what is what. That is true but the solution should not be to give in to the money, but instead to make the money behave correctly.
What we need to do is to fix the economy, which still assumes that products are physical and hasn't been adjusted for the digital reality we have now, let alone the AI. Money was invented by humans, not discovered in nature, and we should therefore make it do what we need instead of letting it steer us the wrong way.