[buddhistdude]

not necessarily, but it's not less creative and inventive than what I believe most programmers are doing most of the time. there are relatively few people who invent new patterns (and they actually might be overrepresented on this website). the rest learns and applies those patterns.

[righthand]

Right that is well understood, but having an LLM compile together functions under the guise of custom built library is hardly a software engineer applying established patterns.

[jeswin]

It is exactly the same as applying established patterns - patterns are what the LLMs have trained on.

It seems you haven't really used LLMs for coding. They're super useful and improving every month - you don't have to take my word for it.

And btw - codespin (https://github.com/codespin-ai/codespin) along with the VSCode plugin is what I use for AI-assisted coding many times. That was also generated via an LLM. I wrote it last year, and at that point there weren't many projects it could copy from.