Maybe we're working on different things?

My experience has been much worse. Random functions with no purpose, awful architecture with no theory of mind, thousands of lines of comprehension debt, bugs that are bizarre and difficult to track down and reason about...

This coupled with the occasional time when it "gets it right".

Those moments make me feel like I saved time, but when I truly critically look at my productivity, I see a net decline overall, and I feel myself getting dumber and losing my ability to come up with creative solutions.