I admit I'm in this boat. I get immense value from LLMs, easily 5x if not more, and the codebases I work in are large, mature and complex. But providing "receipts" as the kids call it these days would be a huge undertaking, with not a lot of upside. In fact, the downsides are considerable. Aside from the time investment, I have no interest in arguing with people about whether what I work on is just CRUD (it's not) or that the problems I work on are not novel (who cares, your product either provides value for your users or it does not).

Agreed! LLMs are a force multiplier for real products too. They're going to augment people who are willing to do the real work.

But, Im also wondering if LLMs are going to create a new generation of software dev "brain rot" (to use the colloquial term), similar to short form videos.

I should mention in the gamedev world, it's quite common share because sharing is marketing, hence my perspective.

What would be more likely,

That people making startups is too bussy working to share it on HN or that AI is useless in real projects.