The thing is I'm not spinning up a new app every day, I'm just working on a large existing system with enough constraints. From that perspective tools + the general rigor I already try to apply means that I can get some value out of LLMs without waiting for it to do something "good".

"I can one-shot a new thing" is interesting but definitionally a thing is new only once. Maybe if I worked in a space where we had way more throwaway things to work on.

At the end of the day I want to understand the output anyways, so it one shotting a thing vs me going back and forth with it in smaller increments is a mixed bag anyways.