[claytongulick]

This, of course, is the problem.

There's a really painful Dunning-Kruger process with LLMs, coupled with brutal confirmation bias that seems to have the industry and many intelligent developers totally hoodwinked.

I went through it too. I'm pretty embarrassed at the AI slop I dumped on my team, thinking the whole time how amazingly productive I was being.

I'm back to writing code by hand now. Of course I use tools to accelerate development, but it's classic stuff like macros and good code completion.

Sure, a LLM can vomit up a form faster than I can type (well, sometimes, the devil is always the details), but it completely falls apart when trying to do something the least bit interesting or novel.

[IAmGraydon]

Absolutely. I also think there's a huge number of wannabe developers who don't have the patience to actually learn development. Those people desperately want this AI development dream to be true so they pretend and convince themselves that it is. They talk about how well it works on internet forums, but you ask for the product and it's crickets. It's all wishful thinking.