I think this is still too extreme. A machine that cuts and preps food at the same level as a 25th percentile person _being paid to do so_, while also being significantly cheaper would presumably be highly relevant.

I feel kind of attacked for my sub-p50 bread slicing skills, TBH. :(

Agreed in a general sense, but there's a bit more nuance.

If a knife slices bread like a normal human at p50, it's not a very good knife.

If a knife slices bread like a professional chef at p50, it's probably a very decent knife.

I don't know if LLMs are better at asking questions than a p50 developer. In my original comment I wanted to raise the question of whether the fact that LLMs are not good at asking questions makes them still worse than human devs.

The first LLM critique in the original article is that they can't copy and paste. I can't argue with that. My 12 year old copies-and-pastes better than top coding agents.

The second critique says they can't ask questions. Since many developers also are not good at this, how does the current state of the art LLM compare to a p50 developer in this regard?