The article misses the point that LLMs are not removing the bottleneck of writing code for people who know how to write code. It's removing this bottleneck for everyone else.
In my experience, non-coders with LLMs can go beyond simple scripts and build non-trivial small applications nowadays, but the difference of outcomes between them and a competent coder with LLMs is still staggering.
I have - somebody in my mushroom foraging group wrote an app that predicts what kinds of mushrooms you are likely to find in different spots in our area, based on weather forecasts and data he's been collecting for years. It's a dead simple frontend/backend, but it works, he built and deployed it himself and he had zero coding experience before this. Pretty impressive, from my perspective.
As a programmer I can see all the rough edges but that doesn't seem to bother the other 99% of people on the group who use it.
