Here's what I got: 
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2026
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I would agree with this last year, but as a programmer I think the models have become fairly capable in coding. Still not using it myself out of principle and not saying it's a silver bullet either, but as a striking example I've seen how my employer's marketing team have developed a new version of our public website (not the much more complex main platform, but not a simple landing page either) with Lovable from the ground up. My main hope these days is the current cost structure proving unsustainable for the AI companies to keep up and this becoming their demise in the end (see Ed Zitron), and not much consumers dismissing it as not good enough anymore. I guess that explains why I'm more to the right of that chart compared to you.
I do hope for the demise of the entire LLM ecosystem that technofascists and other hope huffing idiots have been building. Not only because it is unsustainable (financially, economically, environmentally), but also due to the net harm that open source has suffered. The deluge of slop open source repos have suffered, the constant scraping attacks, I really want these extractive capitalist on main LLMs to die off. I don't see any value beyond my own stated potential use case. Nothing is going to trump a very creative human fueled by spite, caffeine (insert whatever is relevant), and a drive to figure out a problem. Also said human can maintain the code they created, and would need to because of the nature of the solution they personally implemented. LLMs are just another way at the moment for brain dead, shortsighted, lukewarm IQ C-Suites to stop paying people to do work they are qualified for. Until they realize how untenable this actually is, because there will be nobody maintaining that code. Sure LLMs could write code. Will that code actually work, maybe? But will it also make up dependencies that malicious actors will slop squat. Yep. It will also open up attack surfaces with relatively easy methods of gaining access to systems, and export information to a malicious actor's treasure trove of ill gotten gains. As historically, LLMs are naturally insecure, you are leaving a massive vulnerability on production machines if it is installed.
Worse of all, it will gradually reduce the intelligence of the user, as LLMs are being used as a crutch. Outsourcing one's ability to think to an insentient thing designed to boost engagement with it through subtle and obvious methods, that's irresponsible behavior. Think of all the institutional knowledge that would be lost with major adoption of this garbage...I can't bear the idea. Or worse the net diminution of human creativity and critical thinking...Like, ugh, I want this thing to fail miserably and so badly that they don't try again any time soon or after I am dead.
I'm with you, but sadly I think you should ask yourself the question of how much the businesses care about these points. Not how much they should care, but how much they do actually care. For me as a developer that's what matters the most, because I cannot maintain my abstinent approach for much longer in the current climate, something needs to happen and tip the balance.
I know the business don't care! Which is why I am going the route of protest, political activism, boycott, and other ways to reduce their profits. As realistically the only way to make these big dumb idiots back off is to make a big stink, reduce their bottom line, and raise awareness of scummy tactics.
I do understand your situation as you'll be forced between a rock and a hard place. It will likely be very difficult to remain on the side of no-LLM usage for programmers/web dev/creatives in most cases because these big businesses are full on rabies drooling for LLMs. They desperately want them, willing to do nearly anything to make them fetch. Even lose all self-respect. It's gotten to the point where these places are either offering generous severance to senior devs or just laying them off in order to make LLMs look fetch.
The cost is going to catch up with them, and it is going to be apocalyptic when they get the bill.