Yeah.

I'm not even anti-LM. Little things—research, "write TS types for this object", search my codebase, go figure out exactly what line in the Django rest framework is causing this weird behavior, —are working great and saving me an hour here and 15m there.

It's really obvious when people lean on it, because they don't act like a beginner (trying things that might not work) or just being sloppy (where there's a logic ot it but there's no attention to detail), but it's like they copy pasted from Stackoverflow search results at random and there are pieces that might belong but the totality is incoherent.

Yeah, it gets so wild, downright psychedelic.

I'm definitely not anti LLM, I use them all the time. Just not for generating code. I give it a go every couple of months, probably wasting more time on it than I should. I don't think I've felt any real advancements since last year around this time, and this agentic hype seems to be a bit ahead of its time, to put it mildly. But I absolutely get a lot of value out of them.

It's also nice for handling some little tasks that otherwise would have been just annoying enough for me to not do it. Small 5 or 6 line functions that I would have had to fiddle with for far longer to get right.