Using LLMs to code is rapidly converging into "programming with natural language" with all drawbacks Dijkstra foresaw and none of the magic big tech promised.
> it is terrible, shoddy, insecure code, but he proved out a viable business with just a few hundred dollars of investment
I don't think he proved that. In fact the point of the story seems to be the opposite: even if you have a nice looking demo that does the thing, there is a lot of unseen cost to bringing it up to production spec that has to be accounted for.
Google wiped all my codes from their authenticator app
It really drove home that trusting my identity and online presence to these entities that do not care or even know how to be responsible about it is a very bad idea.