I have rarely in my 11+ years of professionally writing software, met someone who could _really_ "write code", but couldn't build software. Anecdotal obviously. But I'd say the opposite tends to be the case IMO - those who tend to really know "the code", also tend to know how to effectively build software (relatively speaking).

It kinda makes sense - "knowing how to code" in modern tech largely means "knowing how to build software" - not write single modules in some language - because those single modules on their own are largely useless outside the context of "software".

It's the ultimate irony that I cling to the stance that humans are capable of nuance and creativity that machines will never match, yet the human-written defenses of AI are so repetitive and shallow and cliched that they don't even require the sophistication of LLMs to produce.

But humans can learn. LLMs don't learn, they only get trained on data previously discovered through human research.