It’s like I asked the exact question :) Your experience is certainly not unique. I see the stories, and often feel like it is just a skill issue on my part. So I ask for advice to help correct my workflow, and I receive a mixture of suggestions on getting the LLM to produce maintainable code (which is always welcomed when it helps to improve the output). But then I noticed that there is a small pocket of people who tell you that you are wrong, or it is a skill issue, or their view is completely at odds to yours. That they have been 10x’ing their output for months. So you ask if they can share a codebase or GitHub link which demonstrates how they have managed to tame the LLM on larger projects, and people go silent.

So now I’m trying to let the code do the talking as one method of learning. Hunting through GitHub looking for SDD projects and trying to understand what works vs what is parroted on X.