Comment by gdulli
It's also possible to put in enough hours of real coding to get to the point where coding really isn't that hard anymore, at least not hard enough to justify switching from those stable/solid fundamental skills to a constantly revolving ecosystem of ephemeral tools, models, model versions, best practices, lessons from trial and error, etc. Then you could bypass all of this distraction.
Admittedly that stance is easiest to take if you were old enough, experienced enough already by the time this era hit.
"There exist developers whose performance cannot be boosted by an LLM" is a really strong statement.