We have good engineers that gave us curl, ffmpeg, the 4.4BSD, tmux, vim and emacs, x11,… To this day, no one can show any particular important software that comes from LLM assistance at scale. It’s all slop.

Well it's been barely a year, but basically all commercial software, and most open-source software, is engineered with AI assistance. It's not all slop, you just aren't looking around. Ask any engineer at any company - are they using LLMs to assist in writing code? All of them will say yes. Source: I'm a software engineer working on commercial software at a company, I also talk to many engineers at other companies.

llama.cpp has significant AI contributions. The Linux kernel too is receiving AI patches. You are seriously out of touch.