I agree. I pasted a block of code from a personal project into the prompt, and asked it to add a simple-but-not-trivial frontend feature, in human language (e.g. "This button expands the sidebar and shows some clickable options. It should open a modal instead, and include a search bar which filters the available options").

It gave me working code which did something kind of like what I asked. After some back and forth where I asked for changes, it -almost- got it working. I had to make one manual CSS change.

I don't think 8 year olds can do this - it feels more like an "instant junior developer" to me.