I'm convinced the vast difference in outcome with LLM use is a product of the vast difference in jobs. For front end work it's just amazing. Spits out boilerplate and makes alterations without any need of help. For domain specific backend, for example robotics, it's bad. Tries to puke bespoke a-star, or invents libraries and functions. I'm way better off hand coding these things.
The problem is this is classic Gell Mann Amnesia. I can have it restyle my website with zero work, even adding StarCraft 2 or NBA Jam themes, but ask it to work in a planning or estimation problem and I'm annoyed by its quality. Its probably bad at both but I don't notice. If we have 10 specializations required on an app, I'm only mad about 10℅. If I want to make an app entirely outside my domain, yeah sure it's the best ever.
The problem is this is classic Gell Mann Amnesia. I can have it restyle my website with zero work, even adding StarCraft 2 or NBA Jam themes, but ask it to work in a planning or estimation problem and I'm annoyed by its quality. Its probably bad at both but I don't notice. If we have 10 specializations required on an app, I'm only mad about 10℅. If I want to make an app entirely outside my domain, yeah sure it's the best ever.