This has been my experience as well, and really leaves me puzzled as to what anyone is gushing about.

Can I just about corral the LLM into producing working output? Yea, sometimes. From a technology perspective, that’s pretty cool!

But is it a productivity boost? Absolutely not. Like not even close. Every time it would have been faster for me to just write the code myself.

I really don’t know how to square the vast gulf between my experiences and many other peoples’.