Can you?

The difference between me copying code and chatgpt is i can understand what the code is doing and not what just matches a statistical association of a string of words.
- What does it mean to understand what the code is doing, that is diametrically opposite from matching statistical association of the commands to the intended outcome
  
  The difference is knowing how you get the answer 2+2 = 4 and not just because people said its "4". Its the ability to reason vs a knowledge store.

AI is just the next level of abstraction. First there was paper tape, then assembly, then C, then C++ and then the higher level OOP languages, JavaScript, and now finally this - natural language. It's the next logical step. And I'm sure at each previous milestone people were having arguments about it much the same as this time.
Thing is, this is the lowest the bar has ever been to get into development - and yet, you still need to understand both what you are asking the LLM to produce and, even more importantly, the output it produces. This second part is in my opinion the most likely aspect to blow up in people's faces.
Don't come crying when the mission critical finance app vibe coded by your MBA suddenly starts erroring out at 3am every second Saturday because your LLM decided to hallucinate a magic number somewhere in your codebase.

I'm so tired of people who pretend their brains aren't machines. AI is a toddler and it's already impressive. When it's an adult, this pretense will dissolve.
- I think a lot of the hostility comes from the fact that AI can and will be used against us. No one actually wants it to succeed because it's an overall loss for us, so people are heavily scrutinizing it in ways that miss the bigger picture imo.
  
  Literally all progress in anything ever can be summarized as "takes fewer people to do the same or more work"