The cost of prototyping has always been very low. I can quickly sketch a UX flow using balsamiq. Or copy-paste paste code from docs and examples to show a rough working model with. If you can extract the essence of the problem you can quickly realize cheap ways to demonstrate a solution, and not spend two weeks trying to code it.

If there’s something that is wrong with using LLMs to prototype, it is that those prototypes are always too complex. Instead of decomposing a problem and testing unrelated concerns apart from each other, it’s often a mix of everything that the LLM user had been thinking about.

Often there’s no rapid iteration where you are comparing several approaches. Instead it became tunnel vision and confirmation bias where if it’s working, that means it’s the solution.