So far I haven't seen it actually be effective at "building" in a work context with any complexity, and this despite some on our team desperately trying to make that the case.

I have! You have to be realistic about the projects. The more irreducible local context it needs, the less useful it will be. Great for greenfield code, oneshots, write once read once run for months.

Agreed. I don’t care for engineering or coding, and would gladly give it up the moment I can. I’m also running a one man business where every hour counts (and where I’m responsible for maintaining every feature).

The fact of the matter is LLMs produce lower quality at higher volumes in more time than it would take to write it myself, and I’m a very mediocre engineer.

I find this seperation of “coding” vs “building” so offensive. It’s basically just saying some people are only concerned with “inputs”, while others with “outputs”. This kind of rhetoric is so toxic.

It’s like saying LLM art is separating people into people who like to scribble, and people who like to make art.