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Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.

Fully agree. I think a lot of people misunderstand what a LLM is actually doing. I have yet to see any dent being made in the value of human creativity.

Then you are ignoring the massive number of people (artists, writers, actors, etc) who have lost work or are being threatened with losing work because of generative AI.

I honestly feel bad for everyone impacted (my job as a dev is also in the crosshairs), but their skills aren't just vanishing, and their experience is gilded. Creativity is still the commodity. This just changes how we create, and we all just have to adapt and evolve as the new landscape is forged.

I see your point is about human creativity in general. But even if creativity "in general" hasn't been devalued (I'm not so sure), lots of creative activities are being monetarily devalued. Creativity isn't a commodity. People pay for the products of creative efforts, not for creativity on its own.

I get what you're saying about creative activities being monetarily devalued, because we have evidence of that happening in the recent past — Napster v. the music industry. Napster's product was better and the music industry almost died because they chose the path of resistance.