Fast for hammering out boilerplate, great for understanding something you've never done before. Much less value for field-frontier or novel work.

I would posit that most people on hackernews are actually not that experienced.

Because the people claiming so are actually bad at coding. I suspect a lot of them actually work in non-coding positions. And while I can for sure see how LLMs can be useful, they code at the level of a junior dev fresh out of college, if I am being generous.

Most of the software I use feels like it is coded by a junior dev fresh out of college anyway. Slow, buggy, bloated, gobbles memory...

Techbro astroturfing. You don't really see the same level of OMG AI on other forums like Reddit. Same thing happened with cryptocurrencies, HN was inundated with plugs for them and the same behavior was downvoted severely elsewhere.