From my thousands of hours working with LLMs since GPT-3, I strongly disagree.
In the media AI hype perspective your CNC analogy sounds right. In my -grounded in real experience using it- perspective the power tool analogy is far more apt.
If you treat agentic IDE like CNC machine that's how you get problems.
Consider the population of opinions. One other reply to my comment is about how the LLM introduced security flaw and repeated line after line of the same code, implying it's useless and can't be trusted. Now you're replying that the LLMs are more capable and autonomous they can be trusted with full automation to the extent of CNC.
My point is that the truth lies somewhere in between.
Maybe in the future your CNC analogy would be valid but right now with windsurf/cursor and Opus 4.5 we aren't there yet.
Lastly, even with your analogy setting up and using CNC is a skill. It's an engineering and design skill. So maybe the person doing that would be more of an engineer than a woodworker, but going as far as calling them a business person isn't accurate to me.
In the media AI hype perspective your CNC analogy sounds right. In my -grounded in real experience using it- perspective the power tool analogy is far more apt.
If you treat agentic IDE like CNC machine that's how you get problems.
Consider the population of opinions. One other reply to my comment is about how the LLM introduced security flaw and repeated line after line of the same code, implying it's useless and can't be trusted. Now you're replying that the LLMs are more capable and autonomous they can be trusted with full automation to the extent of CNC.
My point is that the truth lies somewhere in between.
Maybe in the future your CNC analogy would be valid but right now with windsurf/cursor and Opus 4.5 we aren't there yet.
Lastly, even with your analogy setting up and using CNC is a skill. It's an engineering and design skill. So maybe the person doing that would be more of an engineer than a woodworker, but going as far as calling them a business person isn't accurate to me.