I'm not "thinking about it wrong", I'm saying that I don't like the analogy. Of course all analogies are imperfect, and I get that LLMs greatly accelerate the production of code, but here's the gap: code is not the product. Code is the instruction for the actual machines, and crucially, code is already repeatable and replicable.

In the software world a blacksmith is analogous someone crunching numbers in a spreadsheet. Programmers (combined with hardware engineers) are the ones that are creating the hydraulic presses. LLMs are analogous to CAD, a better tool-building tool to be sure, but at the end of the day if you're stamping out code in a way that an LLM can do it reliably, then you already have a problem that was automatable without an LLM, which code can already do.