I think this argument would be make more sense if you were talking about an architect, or the customer.

A contractor is still very much putting the house together.

Classic HN-ism. To focus on the semantics of a statement while ignoring the greater point in order to argue why someone is wrong.

>You can feed yourself for <$1000 a year on beans and rice. Not saying you'd enjoy it, but you won't starve. So for ~$40B annually, the billionaires buy themselves revolution insurance. Fantastic value.

You are the epitome of the tech bro.

>If you can build things, AI coding agents will let you build faster and more for the same amount of effort.

But you aren't building, your LLM is. Also, you are only thinking about ways as you, a supposed builder, will benefit from this technology. Have you considered how all previous waves of new technologies have introduced downstream effects that have muddied our societies? LLMs are not unique in this regard, and we should be critical on those who are trying to force them into every device we own.