Yeah it’s interesting to see if blaming LLMs becomes as acceptable as “caused by a technical fault” to deflect responsibility from what is a programmer’s output.
Perhaps that’s what lead to a decline in accountability and quality.
The decline in accountability has been in progress for decades, so LLMs can obviously not have caused it.
They might of course accelerate it if used unwisely, but the solution to that is arguably to use them wisely, not to completely shun them because "think of the craft and the jobs".
And yes, in some contexts, using them wisely might well mean not using them at all. I'd just be surprised if that were a reasonable default position in many domains in 5-10 years.
Perhaps that’s what lead to a decline in accountability and quality.