> And this is where the value is for me: I can simply make things higher quality than I could do them alone.

Yeah, that's the thing for me. LLMs have made my work easier and faster, and they've made my side projects easier and faster. I think there are very sensible and valid critiques but so far the tool works for me.

Same thing here. I was able to finish side projects on my list and even refactor decades old projects with the help of LLMs. It works great so far and yeah, I can still write source code when needed.